[Gllug] DVD on Linux
David Irvine
co2cool at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 10 22:50:09 UTC 2001
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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