[Gllug] Re: Ogle DVD

[Ian Northeast]

Ian Norton wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:12:25AM +0000, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> 
> you might want to give gmplayer a go, it is a fairly good gui for mplayer,
> allows easy configuration of stuff like frame dropping if you find that it lags
> somtimes
> 
> on my celeron 400 laptop (running gnome so 95% ram used) mplayer + gmplayer
> seem to easily play any dvd i have and the vast majority of my mpegs and divx.
> ogle uses libxine afaik so they in thoery xine and ogle should play the 
> same stuff, its just a matter of how you tell it to play them.

I've been playing with DVD players on my Dell Latitude CPt 600 (Celeron 
600, 128MB, ATI Rage Mobility) running Debian Woody, using a legitimate 
copy of "The Two Towers". I find:

Ogle: Works, but slow, video is jerky and sound lags. DVD menus work.

Xine: Refuses to play "encrypted/locked" DVDs at all. Apparantly The Two 
Towers is locked in some way so it doesn't work;

Mplayer: Having installed the "gatos" drivers for the ATI card 
(http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php), and used hdparm to tweak the 
DVD drive as per the recommendations in the mplayer docs, it works 
excellently, with the "xv" video driver. But there is no access to the 
DVD menus AFAICS.

Does anyone know how to combine the excellent performance of mplayer 
with the functionality of ogle?

Regards, Ian


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