Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Jim McCloskey
Following up on my own message to correct a mis-statement. I wrote: |> Xine is now very mature and very stable. The Debian packages (even |> in unstable) lag a little behind, This is wrong (I was looking in the wrong place). The package xine-ui in unstable supplies the most up-to-date version of

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Arno
Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like Mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). To my knowledge there is no debian > package > Some non-offical debs, for testing and unstable: http://marillat.free.fr/ I'm using the unstable ones, work great.

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
Jim McCloskey wrote: David Harrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Therefore, I'm asking this esteemed group which combo of DVD Player |> software does it for you..plus what limitations does your chosen bit |> of software have? Xine is now very mature and very stable. The Debian packages (even

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Alan Shutko
Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of RAM. Is this > sufficient to play DVDs using a software player? It probably is, but may not be depending on the disk and the player. Linux software players are generally not as highly optimized as Windows

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:06:16PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > system. I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of > > RAM. Is this sufficient to play DVDs using a software > > player? > I believe your video card is a (considerable ??) factor in DVD > playback too. What kind do you have ?? I

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> This reminds me that I've been meaning to ask this > question for a long time. I have a DVD drive that someone > gave me when I upgraded their computer, and I was > wondering if it would be worthwhile to install it in my > system. I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of > RAM. Is this suffic

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:55:55PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > My favourites are xine and mplayer. > > xine is GUI based and has a cool looking, starts to support DVD menus but > > sometimes segfaults with the d4d plugin (you need this for css D

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:55:55PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > My favourites are xine and mplayer. > xine is GUI based and has a cool looking, starts to support DVD menus but > sometimes segfaults with the d4d plugin (you need this for css DVDs) > http://xine.sourceforge.net > > mplayer is comman

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, David Harrigan wrote: > Hiya, > > Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) on DVD. Now, > I'm left wondering - I could play this on my Windows ME machine, or I > could play this on my Linux (Debian :) machine. I know which one I > would prefer Therefore,

OT -- Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) > on DVD... Uhhh, where are you from ?? It's not supposed to be out until tomorrow... You have friends at a video store or something ?? Hall

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:46:01PM +0100, David Harrigan wrote: > Hiya, > > Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) on DVD. Now, I'm > left > wondering - I could play this on my Windows ME machine, or I could play this > on my > Linux (Debian :) machine. I know which one I would