Re: $200 computer and video

[Ken Moffat]

An unnamed Administration source, Leon A. Goldstein, wrote:
 

Joel Hammer wrote:

   

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.
   

I'm using libranet 2.8 with mplayer and it plays dvd's no problem.
gmplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd
is the commandline I use for the gui frontend. I'm watching "The 
Fellowship of the Ring" as we speak.

--
Ken
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