Re: got dvd working...BUT

[Jeremy Petzold <jpetzold@earthlink.net>]

Jord Swart wrote:
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> On Saturday 09 November 2002 18:51, Nyk Tarr wrote:
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> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:38:58AM -0500, Jeremy Petzold wrote:
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> > > I have no video.....audio works, (I listened to stripes:-)) but that is
> > > not as good as seeing a movie :-).
> > >
> > > I have bused every dvd player and I get the same thing.
> > >
> > > I have been using vlc as it seems to work the best, could it just be
> > > that the libdvdcss is not as good as the newer versions of the library?
> >
> > Have you tried to compile your own mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu)?
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> If you go for MPlaryer: I have very bad experiences with the latest version 
> (pre9), it is very slow and tells me my system is too slow to play movies. 
> All the other ones (MPlayer pre6 and Xine) have no problems with my pc.
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> Xine works pretty well on my system, you can apt-get it as well.
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well, I got Mplayer, but it does not want to work for me. and I got 
Xine, but it hard freezes my system.

arg.......those two programs seem to be a step backward from where I 
have gotten with vlc....I don't want to give up when I can hear the 
movie, but what am I to do? :-(

any one know a commercial palyer for Linux that will have the benifit of 
being supported by the evil ones in hollywood?