Re: DVDs

[Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@purdue.edu>]

* Hereward Cooper (zadok@phreaker.net) wrote:
> On Saturday 21 July 2001 14:20, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote:
> > > Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player!
> > >
> > > I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch
> > > of software from the LiVID project.
> > >
> > > Is any of this software packaged up for Debian/unstable anywhere?
> > >
> > > I don't  mind building it by hand, but not if there's packages out
> > > there.  I couldn't find them though...
> >
> > I think the best DVD software package is xine, 
> 
> linux.com has a good article on how to get dvd working with Xine. (i think 
> the guy writting it was running debian aswell).
> 
> Hereward

  I'll second both of those. Xine and a little tweaking following the
article on the linux.com and now I can play encrypted DVDs just fine.
Now, does anybody know how to make Matrox G400 output DVD playback to
the secondary head (TV)? Beats me...

  Alex.