[H-GEN] Linux DVD

[Paul Gearon]

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On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Paul Cornford wrote:

> I recently installed a dvd drive on my RH8 Linux box but haven't had
> much success at viewing dvd's despite implementing the advice in the
> Linux DVD howto. My system is a Celeron 433 with 256 MB of RAM which
> plays DVD's flawlessly in Windows. I have allocated dma 1 both to the
> sound card and to the IDE in modules.conf. I can start a DVD OK but
> after a while the sound begins to break up. Frame speed also appears
> slower in Linux than in Windows. I have tried turning off services. I am
> using Xine.

I've used Xine, and hate it.  The UI looks nice, but it often misbehaves,
and the video playback that I've managed to obtain has been horrendous.

I've had much better success with some of the others available (OMS, Ogle,
VideoLAN). My favourite is MPlayer.  The user interface isn't as nice (I
tend to use the keyboard controls) but it does it's job wonderfully.


Regards,
Paul Gearon

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