On Saturday 15 September 2001 06:26 am, Jonas Jacobsson wrote: > Can anyone recomend a dvd viewer for Mandrake 8.0? > xmovie needs kernel 2.4.7 and I only have 2.4.3. > > /jonas xine, videolan, and mplayer are all pretty good. I prefer xine; videolan sometimes has problems with synchronizing audio and video, and mplayer doesn't have a gui. You can find xine and mplayer by going to freshmeat.net and searching for them there. You can get videolan at www.videolan.org. videolan is packaged in rpms as well as source, and as packaged contains everything you need to play encrypted dvds. The current xine, I think, only is packaged as source, but you can get rpms for older versions. mplayer, I think, is only packaged as source. With xine and mplayer, you need plugins to play encrypted dvds. You can get the xine plugin by going to the captain css link on the xine home page, and the mplayer site tells you what plugins you need and where to get them. I think there are some gcc issues when you try to compile mplayer that require you to use certain options with the ./configure command, but I can't remember what those options are. The easiest way to get something that works, I think, is to get the videolan rpms. If you're comfortable installing from source, I'd go with xine. If you're comfortable both with installing from source and a command line only program, then you might want to give mplayer a try. Hope this helps. -- Rich
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