>> Ogle and related ports
>>
>> x11/ogle
>> x11/ogle-gui
>> x11/goggles
>>
>> The main homepages:
>> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/
>> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd/
>> etc.
>
> Ogle is still one of the best dvd players out there (if not the best), with
> support for chapters and menus that actually *works*. Plus, the intuitive
> interface and bookmarkings (especially the goggles frontend).
>
> It has a few (very few) limitations: it cannot be used to encode dvds, nor
> does it support Closed-Caption subtitles.
>
> Contrary to (say) mplayer, it also has a decent decoding model that use
> separate processes for various things. Thus, it can play dvds on multi-core
> machines that would be unable to do so otherwise (yes, I realize those are
> a bit old these days).
>
> Also, it does not depend on the kitchen sink:
> echo$ SUBDIR=x11/ogle make all-dir-depends|tsort|wc -l
>      22
> echo$ SUBDIR=x11/vlc make all-dir-depends|tsort|wc -l
>     151
> echo$ SUBDIR=x11/mplayer make all-dir-depends|tsort|wc -l
>      68
>
> Obsolete you say ? by no mean !

Sorry for that, guys. This convinced me, less dependencies is what I
like, I will try it out too.

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