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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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