Re: DVD Player Software
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:55:55PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> > My favourites are xine and mplayer.
> > xine is GUI based and has a cool looking, starts to support DVD menus but
> > sometimes segfaults with the d4d plugin (you need this for css DVDs)
> > http://xine.sourceforge.net
> >
> > mplayer is command line based has a few less features but it is very robust
> > with the css stuff.
> > Search at freshmeat.net.
>
> This reminds me that I've been meaning to ask this question for a long
> time. I have a DVD drive that someone gave me when I upgraded their
> computer, and I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to install it in my
> system. I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of RAM. Is this
> sufficient to play DVDs using a software player?
Give it a try and let us know :) I don't think it will be fast enough,
but you might be pleasantly surprised.
-jwb
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