YDL 3.0: Quality of DVD playing support?

[Stefan Bruda]

At 16:14 -0700 on 2003-5-12 Rick Sheridan wrote:
 >
 > Use 'Xine'.  I haven't tried it on a Linux PPC machine, but I use it on an
 > Athlon Slackware box.  Check this out from Yellow Dog Solutions:
 > 
 > http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/dvd.shtml

The YDL howto is somehow outdated.  I use xine 0.9.13 with the
xine-dvdnav plugin, which if I am not mistaken is included out of the
box in version 1.x.  This plugin uses libdvdnav and libdvdcss for
playing encrypted DVDs with full menu support, whereas the plugin
described in the YDL howto will not provide menu support on PPC.  See
http://dvd.sourceforge.net/ for details and downloads.

If you need to install xine-dvdnav separately from xine, be careful
with the versions: this is not documented, but anything else than an
exact version match (e.g., xine-dvdnav 0.9.13 for xine 0.9.13) will
not work.

For what it's worth, xine works perfectly for DVD playbak on my
tibook, whereas both ogle and mplayer have some issues with sound
synchronization (perhaps they can be fixed, but I did not really try
since xine does the job quite nicely anyway).

Stefan

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