[H-GEN] dvds

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Darrin,

> me is wanting to buy dvd drive to replace my aging 4x cdrom in my
> linux box
>
> what are the issues involved for just using it do play cds and does
> anyone have any experience with this or good sources of info.

On a Windoze box, there is no difference between a CD-ROM and a DVD-ROM
drive for CD playing, ripping and etc.  I assume this is the same under
Linux.

> I imagine that there is  no DVD playing software for linux
>
> I have the DeCSS source and a win32 binary of it, but I doubt I
> could compile it under linux (I'm a perl person).
>
> So basically I want to know if anyone has had any experience in this
> area so I can purchase my drive and not have to dual boot or rip them
> under windows and then play them back across the network.
>
> I'm off to have a look at opendvd.org now.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone has had problems, but I expect all will
work nicely for you.

Regards,
Hilton Travis


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