I have thought about getting a DVD player for my system, but wonder. I have
seen where they advise your processor be at least 300 MHz and I have a 450, but
is that really enough?
Rich Buckner wrote:
> 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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