pismo Qs/short rant

[Greg Hamilton]

Actually I've had trouble playing DVDs and I've been meaning to post 
about it.

I've installed mplayer, xine and ogle.

Mplayer works, but I haven't found a combination of video options that 
gives good playback. It drops a lot of frames playing back from DVD, 
though it works well for video files on the hard drive, including those 
ripped from DVD using mencoder, which is part of the mplayer package.

Xine works well but I can't find any way to use the DVD menus or to do 
chapter selection. So I can watch the DVD intro and then the menu 
screen loops endlessly, though with a really good frame rate. This, I 
suspect, is due to user error. I just need to read the manual again.

Ogle dies when I select 'open disc' from the file menu (I have the 
ogle_gui installed). It doesn't appear to output any error messages if 
it's run from a terminal and I can't find anything in any of the logs.

Greg

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 04:41  PM, rob wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 02:11 AM, Bernd Ritter wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Ogle plays it really well. Under Linux the Region Code of your 
>> DVD-Drive is not tested, so you can play every RC without any hassle. 
>> It doesnt even ask for it!
>>
>> Bernd
>
> Thank you so much,Bernd!!
> So I will take the plunge and hopefully contribute more to this list 
> then just trite Qs.
>  More input from others is also appreciated.
> Thanks
>
>
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