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Hi

I've just bought a Pioneer internal DVD player for my PC - and was
wondering on my options / chances of Software playback of DVD's in Linux???

Specs:

PII 400, 128 Ram, TNT video cards and Creative Live sound card.

Playback is OK in Windows with a software player.  I was wondering of the
kind of Linux software available, with regeon decoding (that I heard, bit
legaly dubious) etc.

Any info appreciated.

Cheers.

Chris.

check out www.opendvd.org

Due to the rather obnoxious & monopolistic behavior of the MPAA, the major
linux distributions do not include DVD viewing software (to avoid a
lawsuit). You can, however, get DVD software from www.opendvd.org

As for enabling the player, you have to get a kernel patch from that site
and recompile your kernel.

Quote:> Hi

> I've just bought a Pioneer internal DVD player for my PC - and was
> wondering on my options / chances of Software playback of DVD's in
Linux???

> Specs:

> PII 400, 128 Ram, TNT video cards and Creative Live sound card.

> Playback is OK in Windows with a software player.  I was wondering of the
> kind of Linux software available, with regeon decoding (that I heard, bit
> legaly dubious) etc.

> Any info appreciated.

> Cheers.

> Chris.

Quote:>Hi

>I've just bought a Pioneer internal DVD player for my PC - and was
>wondering on my options / chances of Software playback of DVD's in
>Linux???

http://linuxvideo.org

MST

Quote:> check out www.opendvd.org

> Due to the rather obnoxious & monopolistic behavior of the MPAA, the
major
> linux distributions do not include DVD viewing software (to avoid a
> lawsuit). You can, however, get DVD software from www.opendvd.org

> As for enabling the player, you have to get a kernel patch from that site
> and recompile your kernel.

OK - have done the kernel re-compile etc no probs, even downloaded a new
sound driver for the live from the nice folks at creative - but am having a
LOT of hassle with the DVD dvd playback.

The process of creating the keys for each individual segment of the DVD
before playback is sooo annoying!!  It took me ages to realise (from the
README and not the summary instructions) that you have to create tons of
these files before playing the DVD.  Can this be automated more easily in
some way?

Also playback is a bit patchy on my machine (fine in Win, much worse
playback in Lin with a KDE d/t etc.).

Cheers

Chris.