DVD support in linux is still somewhat crippled. the livid project is making
progress, or at least they claim to make progress. I can't really tell because
the damn thing won't even compile here. A somewhat older version I ran a few
months ago gave me a movie playback with slight slideshow-resemblance requiring
100% CPU utilisation on my dual celeron 400, so I guess DVD and linux for the
moment don't mix very well, or they must have made a real big breaktrough in the
last 2 months or so.
I'm still hoping to get it compiling one of these days, but with all the work I
got right now it's not really a number one priority. Perhaps you'll have more
luck. Or more time to figure out why the damn thing won't compile. ;)
On Mar 24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does Supermount work with DVD-ROM's under Linux? I installed an Acer IDE
> DVD-ROM today and it made things go *extremely* slow until I commented out
> the /etc/fstab entry for the device. The GIMP hung and all kinds of other
> unpleasant things happened. Now I've got it so I have to manually mount
> it and it seems to be ok. Any idea why this might be?
>
> Also, how do I get to view DVD movies under Linux? I looked at the LiViD
> page and it's talking about patching the kernel for DVD fs support and
> whatnot, or else using a development kernel with it built in. Any
> suggestions on the best way to go about it? I've always been a little
> reluctant to mess with the kernel and I don't really like the idea of
> patching it. Is there a module or something I can just slap in there?
>
> Any info would be appreciated. I'd like to get this running under Linux
> so I can show off to a few Windows users... =)
>
>
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