I was just curious what is the best software to view DVD movies on
Linux. (I know this was discussed before, but I'm too lazy to look it
up). I just want some quick opinions.
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Jerry Feldman
xine.sourceforge.net & mplayer --> mplayerhq.hu You should complile them yourself (mplayer in particular), as the versions that came with suse 8.2 are crippled by copyright problems. Regards, Sourian On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 22:12, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I was just curious what is the best software to view DVD movies on Linux. (I know this was discussed before, but I'm too lazy to look it up). I just want some quick opinions. -- Sourian
On Friday 23 May 2003 11:25 pm, Sourian wrote:
xine.sourceforge.net
& mplayer --> mplayerhq.hu
You should complile them yourself (mplayer in particular), as the versions that came with suse 8.2 are crippled by copyright problems.
And for the lazy, RPMs are available at http://packman.links2linux.de/ Regards, Jason
Regards, Sourian
On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 22:12, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I was just curious what is the best software to view DVD movies on Linux. (I know this was discussed before, but I'm too lazy to look it up). I just want some quick opinions.
-- Sourian
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 08:49:10PM +0100, Jason wrote: : On Friday 23 May 2003 11:25 pm, Sourian wrote: : > xine.sourceforge.net : > : > & mplayer --> mplayerhq.hu : > : > You should complile them yourself (mplayer in particular), as the : > versions that came with suse 8.2 are crippled by copyright problems. : : And for the lazy, RPMs are available at http://packman.links2linux.de/ Let me put in a vote for xine. It supports dvd menus and deinterlacing. MPlayer supports neither. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!
You might want to take a look at vlc. http://www.videolan.org/ vlc may also be of interest to those who occasionally use MS operating systems. Current USA DVD Windows programs are becoming increasingly crippled including the prevention of simultaneous monitor and analog TV outputs, and not being executable on computers that are running server OS or remote access software. vlc does not have these limitations. Incidentally, finding and compiling all of the required mplayer and xine dependencies is a real headache. It is ridiculous that there is (probably) no legal way to play copyrighted DVDs on Linux. Robbie
Thanks guys. I'll probably use xine (self compiled). I had not intended
to use my laptop as a movie player, but my wife wants to borrow it :-)
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Jerry Feldman
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 06:31:09PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: : Thanks guys. I'll probably use xine (self compiled). I had not intended : to use my laptop as a movie player, but my wife wants to borrow it :-) Do yourself a favor and check out the RPMs at http://packman.links2linux.de. They're already compiled with all the goodies that are missing from the stock SuSE packages. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!
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