reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-06 Thread Vinai
Hi Folks, I wanted to try out playing DVD's under Potato PPC. So I grabbed a vlc .tgz archive from www.videolan.org. Everything seemed to compile, but on launching vlc, I get a window, the DVD drive spins for a while, but nothing else seems to happen. I let it spin for a while in case it is jus

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Vinai wrote: I wanted to try out playing DVD's under Potato PPC. So I grabbed a vlc .tgz archive from www.videolan.org. Everything seemed to compile, but on launching vlc, I get a window, the DVD drive spins for a while, but nothing else seems to happen. I let it spin for a while in case it

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-07 Thread Vinai
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: } How is it supposed to read the data from disc without UDF support? ;) I was hoping that vlc would take care of file system translation without the need for kernel support, like hfsutils do ... } There are Lombards with DVD drives? Sure it's

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Lanners
On 6 May, this message from Vinai echoed through cyberspace: > I wanted to try out playing DVD's under Potato PPC. So I grabbed a vlc > .tgz archive from www.videolan.org. Everything seemed to compile, but > on launching vlc, I get a window, the DVD drive spins for a while, but > nothing else s

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
Vinai wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: } There are Lombards with DVD drives? Sure it's not a Pismo? No: the original Lombard 400's had DVD drives, as well as a hardware DVD decoder. And it does have the HDI SCSI port at the back, so it is not a Pismo ;-) Didn't

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > kernel.org. I run the 3.3.6 version of XFree from potato 2.2r2 and this > > is all on a Lombard/400/DVD. > > There are Lombards with DVD drives? Sure it's not a Pismo? Sure there are. I didn't know there are Lombards with just CD drives :-) Michael

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-08 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Vinai wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > > } There are Lombards with DVD drives? Sure it's not a Pismo? > > > > No: the original Lombard 400's had DVD drives, as well as a hardware DVD > > decoder. And it does have the HDI SCSI port

kernel options (was: reqs for vlc ?)

2001-05-08 Thread Vinai
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: }Michel Dänzer wrote: } }> Maybe there are UDF patches for 2.2 (or do DVD players depend on }> other stuff from 2.4?) . } } 2.2 kernels have had support for DVDs since at least 2.2.17. How would I turn on that support? I've tried the "Experimental Drivers"

Re: kernel options (was: reqs for vlc ?)

2001-05-08 Thread Bastien Nocera
On 08 May 2001 13:59:06 -0500, Vinai wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > }Michel Dänzer wrote: > } > }> Maybe there are UDF patches for 2.2 (or do DVD players depend on > }> other stuff from 2.4?) . > } > } 2.2 kernels have had support for DVDs since at least 2.2.17. > > How woul