Re: Software DVD players
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Geoffrey Romer wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstable? I
> > > am willing to build from source if I have to but would prefer something
> > > packaged.
> >
> > VideoLAN is great (www.videolan.org) and Xine works well too
> > (xine.sourceforge.net).
>
> VideoLan was the only one I could get to work easily (there's a .deb
> somewhere for the css library, and once that's in it'll play encrypted
> DVDs. It works great- my only complaint (aside from the lack of
> menus/subtitles, which is minor) is that the sound is very tinny and
> noisy compared to windows-based DVD players. My guess is there's some
> sort of problem handling Dolby Digital encoding, because it's present
> in every audio-output plugin I've tried.
The latest release of videolan has a really fantastic downmix of surround
to stereo. Give that a try.
-jwb
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