Re: IBM 600 E
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Jørgen Ruud wrote:
>
> I have a thinkpad 600E with 132 mb ram. I going to install debian
> testing (woody) on this an I have a few question about DVD and divx on
> this machine.
>
> Will I be able to use the DVD player under linux?, and will this
> machine be able to play divX fullscreen under linux?. This machine has
> a tv-out-port, how do you tell X to pipe output to it?.
>
if the laptop has it, you will be unable to use the hardware MPEG2 (aka
DVD) decoder as IBM although says it is opensource has not (as far as I
know) released anything that will allow us linux users to use the hardware
decoder in the laptop.
however the laptop should be of a high enough spec to allow software
decoding, fullscreen and in realtime.
As for the tv-out-port I don't know. I guess it could be considered as a
doubled headed display or something, otherwise if its all done magically
in hardware (like a normal SVGA output socket on a laptop) you shouldn't
have any problems.
however if you had spent 20 mins looking with google on the internet you
would probably know all this already.......... :-/
> What programs would solve my problem best? (dvd, divx) Xine?
>
mplayer, VideoLAN, take your pick.
mplayer is my favourite, however you have to make sure you have a happy X
installation, that means DGA set up and SDL working nicely for the best
results.
Alex
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