I posted awhile back about my lindows box ($200, Debian distro). I noted that running xine froze the computer and required a reinstall of the whole dang thing. Since then, I have been leery of video, although realplayer has worked fine.I just installed mplayer from the lindows warehouse (I mean, how else can you view those movies from the weather satellites?). It runs beautifully. So, there is hope for video on this box.
You need a small file added in order to play DVD's with xine.
I don't know how Lindows handles this. Libranet's Xine would
not play until I downloaded the missing codec. Since there
apparently is some legal issue involved, I don't think it appropriate to
discuss details here.
BTW the latest Consumer Reports has a review of the Walmart Lindows
boxes. It is not favorable.
However, Consumer Reports takes an "average user" perspective.
Your previous posts on the the subject make a convincing argument that
a knowledgeable Linuxist can wring acceptable performance out of one of
the Walmart Lindows boxes.
Leon A. Goldstein
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System 5151
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