[Gllug] DVD on Linux

[David Irvine]

Richard Cohen wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Axel Segebrecht wrote:
>
>>has anyone got experience with running DVD on Linux?
>>
>>i have a Matrox G400 dh and was just curious if it
>>was possible to watch DVD on dh over the Matrox.
>>
>
>My G400 can play DVDs quite happily (with 2xPIII-550 underneath) fullscreen
>or in a window, in X or on the fb console.  One limitation of the G400 Dual
>Head is that only one of the heads can be accelerated for this kind of
>thing, and that head, by default, is the first (monitor) head.  MPlayer -
>which I'm starting to like, particularly since it now has libdvdread (which
>is a *very* good thing - DeCSS, DVD .NFO parsing and so on, all in a
>library) support in CVS - has some hackery which will give you accelerated
>output on head two - I have a long SCART lead running into the living room
>to watch DVDs on my big TV.  iPAQ with wireless networking rocks as a remote
>:-)
>

You've just sparked a whole new  bunch  of geek  gadgets for my  living 
room, if I split up with my  gf i'm  holding you personally responsible. :D

I'd never thought of using an ipaq as a remote, well i guess thats one 
 use for it. :) The wonders of a tv card with remote control suffices 
for now. hmmm. Time to  buy an ipaq.


:D

David

>
>
>Warning - if you do try the second-head output stuff from MPlayer, take it
>slowly and sync your disks a lot.  If you know what I mean :-(
>
>And no, I'm not coming over to set it up for you :-)
>
>>MTIA, Axel
>>http://smatrix.de
>>
>
>Cheers
>Richard
>
>




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