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joe@tmsusa.com wrote:

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(http://www.videolan.org/)

Ah yes, I didn't even address his choice of media player

With VLC and mplayer, any video can be seen, or need editing :-)) jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

----- "Ying Shi" wrote:

Thanks, guys:

I am going to install MPlayer. Any reason I still need VLC?

In my experience it does a better job of playing (and ripping tracks from) Sony's purposefully corrupted DVDs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

----- "Charles philip Chan" wrote:

David Vernon writes:

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In my experience it does a better job of playing (and ripping tracks from) Sony's purposefully corrupted DVDs.

mplayer does equally well theses days with the newer Sony DVDs. However, you will need the svn version of mplayer linked against the svn version of dvdnav from the mplayer site. I am not too sure if Packman have caught up yet.

I used to use Fedora 8 and the mplayer builds from livna, atrpms, and freshrpms.net all were configured as you suggest. In that case it was a simple matter of specifying dvdnav://x instead of dvd://x to play the Sony DVDs. Sadly the Packman mplayer RPMs specifically (according to the change log) disabled the use of dvdnav. I have simply found it easier to use vlc to play them than to grab the svn and build myself (lazy ;-) ). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 15 May 2008 11:22:17 Charles philip Chan wrote:

David Vernon writes:

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Sadly the Packman mplayer RPMs specifically (according to the change log) disabled the use of dvdnav.

Interesting, I have to go through the CHANGELOG to see why they disabled it. I know that the dvdnav included in all distros are too ancient for recent mplayer to use, but they could have prokaged a SVN version from the mplayer site.

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I have simply found it easier to use vlc to play them than to grab the svn and build myself (lazy ;-) ).

It is easy once you have done it once and set up a script. ;-)

Charles

it's just a couple of rows that I explained in an idiot-proof dvdnav-howto.txt. Even menu navigation works, now I only have to fix the audio track selection in the menu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 14 May 08, Ying Shi wrote:

Thanks, guys:

I am going to install MPlayer. Any reason I still need VLC?

Since no one else has the cods to ask you to stop top-posting beside myself, and all they'll do anyway is whine and get their panties in a wad from this post too............<PLONK> -- Criminals love gun control -- it makes their jobs safer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org