Is their any DVD software for Linux??

David Ayliffe

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May 20, 2001, 12:59:14 PM5/20/01

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Using Suse Linux 7.1 Personal
Is any DVD playing software installed as default? Its a pain in the ass
to have to reboot into windows!!

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Thanks David Ayliffe
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Andreas Garbe

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May 20, 2001, 1:06:35 PM5/20/01

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Hi

I have the same Problem!!!!

Andreas

Francesc Vilariño

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May 20, 2001, 2:23:29 PM5/20/01

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David Ayliffe wrote:

> Using Suse Linux 7.1 Personal
> Is any DVD playing software installed as default? Its a pain in the ass
> to have to reboot into windows!!
>

You can use Xine; it is still under development, but it plays nicely your
DVDs. The URL is:

http://xine.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Francesc

Steve Sivier

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May 20, 2001, 2:57:02 PM5/20/01

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In article <9e8ufp$690$1...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, Francesc Vilarino
<fran...@vilarino.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

I haven't had any real luck with Xine (which probably means I screwed up
when building it), but I have gotten videolan (www.videolan.org) to work
fairly well.

Steve

Francesc Vilariño

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May 20, 2001, 4:12:07 PM5/20/01

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Steve Sivier wrote:

> I haven't had any real luck with Xine (which probably means I screwed up
> when building it), but I have gotten videolan (www.videolan.org) to work
> fairly well.
>
> Steve
>

Now there's a RPM for SuSE Linux that makes it a lot easier; I also tried
to compile before, and, like you, didn't manage to get it up and running...

Francesc

Bora Ugurlu

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May 20, 2001, 3:12:13 PM5/20/01

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Francesc Vilariño wrote:

It works mostly for cards like Matrox G400, it doesn't use hardware Motion
Compensation or other properties in Nvidia cards yet. I have a P3 750, and
a Geforce DDR. With kernel 2.4 it runs at acceptable speeds, though not
perfect nor smooth. It crashes once and then, if you for example FF or skip
a chapter, or change the screen resolution, etc..

Shortly, it is not a grown up stable program yet.. Not yet, but it is on
the right way. I'd say, in the next 2 versions, it will work a lot stabler.

By the way, does anybody have the CSS patch for the latest version (4.2)?

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zulu

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May 21, 2001, 3:25:43 AM5/21/01

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Well, have you heard of an utility call DeCSS? It was written specifically
because there are no Linux DVD players. Of course RIAA didn't let a little
thing like international law get in the way of having him arrested and put
to trial.

You can do a google search for DeCSS and use that to decode and play DVD's
on your Linux box. Or on The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), they
listed a couple of alternatives that have higher throughput than DeCSS.
Just search their site for DeCSS. Cheers.

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Linuxboy

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May 22, 2001, 2:12:16 AM5/22/01

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When I use Xine, nothing happens...

I cannot load a DVD, nada, nothing works...

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