[Wolves] DVDs on Ubuntu

[Andy Wootton]

David Goodwin wrote:

>
>> What DVD software has anyone else seen working well on Ubuntu?
>>
>
> vlc - packages are in Universe I think. I use it as it allows me to 
> scale / enlarge the movies which take up about only 1/5 of my screen 
> real estate when viewed in mplayer (mplayer has a zoom option, but 
> this really eats up cpu time and results in it behaving poorly)
> (I guess they are encoded to a stupid resolution, probably suitable 
> for watching on TV, but of no use to anyone watching on a computer)
>
> David.
>
David,

Thanks. Would that be the s/w described as "video-conferencing"?

Totem-Xine resizes; up to full screen. It does colour screen capture 
too! The difference between Totem-GStreamer and Totem-Zine was spectacular.

I think DVDs were aimed at HD-TV resolution. I read that the BBC 
proposed (patented ?) a transmission format based on fractals that 
allowed you to bite off as many bits as you could chew. Being a great 
British idea it bombed of course.

Woo