[Gllug] DVD on Linux

[Axel Segebrecht]

> 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
> :-)

sound workable

> 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 :-(

ok

> And no, I'm not coming over to set it up for you :-)

np :)

Rg, Axel
http://smatrix.de


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