[PLUG] DVD Player
Steve Bonds
1s7k8uhcd001 at sneakemail.com
Thu Sep 12 17:22:52 UTC 2002
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, alan alan at clueserver.org wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Russ Johnson wrote:
> The best so far is Xine. It is kind of a pain to set up. There are RPMs
> available, but they require the aalib RPMs, which are not standard on most
> distributions. (Which is a shame because they are kind of cool.)
>
> You need the decss libraries and the dvdread libraries. Those can be
> found with the RPMs for Xine. (Look around at
> http://xine.sourceforge.com/ for external links. One of them will send you
> to the site with the proper RPMs.
I found all of the Xine stuff I needed at:
http://valhalla.freshrpms.net/
The only tricky part was learning that I needed to hit the "D5D" or "D4D"
button in Xine instead of "DVD". ;-)
I found the VideoLAN client (http://www.videolan.org/) to be painfully
simple to set up, but I've also heard horror stories from other folks.
I'd say to give it a try and if it doesn't work easily, don't spend too
much time making it work.
-- Steve
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