On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:10:14PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: AnotherLinuxGuy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Divx and DVD playback > > > what is the best of the best when it comes to a program that does > playback of divx and DVDs? i have heard Xine and Mplayer, in Xine i get > no sound, i use esd or dsp i think, its on a compaq armada m700 laptop, > and in mplayer i get a segment fault right off the bat, but they dont > have a deb package and i just downloaded their rpm and used alien to > convert it, so i wasnt to hopefull in the first place. does anyone have > any other suggestions on programs that "just work" right out of the box? > >
I'd say it's Mplayer from Source, plus copious amounts of time to (a) learn how to compile it [1) lots of -dev packages are required; 2) debian/rules configure requires tweaks; 3) lots of dlls need to be in downloaded] and all that. Then if you have a desktop with a good Alsa environment and an Nvidia or an ATI you're set. It took me quite a bit longer to get MPlayer not to segfault on my 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop with a Chips & Technologies graphics chip. (It played Movies fine in XP -- it's old el crapo driver issues). For instance, I had to tweak X quite a bit, *and* use the SDL compat libraries to avoid the **YOUR SYSTEM IS TOO SLOW** messages or segfaults. It took a couple weeks, but it finally played DivX like a champ. (Well, audio drifted quite a bit. 500mhz P3 w/ old as hell graphics -- just barely up to specs). I expect your Armada will be a bit too but hang in there. It's worth it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]