ogle vs xine vs mplayer
I just compiled ogle
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml
on sid and it is BY FAR the best dvd player I have yet to get working on
linux.
It compiled without a hitch and perfectly handled the menus and english
language subtitles on my Amores Perros DVD, AV synced perfectly, and
played at around 25 fps full screen on my dell inspiron 8k.
I have played dvds with xine 4-9.x and mplayer 5.x and so far ogle is
the only Player that I have found compares favorably to windows players.
ie: handles menus, handles subtitles, you don't have to point it at a
chapter or title, just ./ogle -u cli and it starts playing whatever dvd is
in your drive, does slow mo, freeze frame, chapter skip, full screen ,
etc... , av sync doesn't suck, plays at full speed, plays encrypted
dvds.
I highly recommend compiling it.
If there is any interest I'll package it for sid and some of the libs
needed to compile it (new libdvdread) etc.
Tom
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:33:43 +1000
> Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au> wrote:
>
> DM> Quoth Joerg Johannes,
> DM> > I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it.
> DM> > I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only
> DM> > shows up in window mode ("F" during playback has no effect, and "-pf" on
> DM> > the command line neither...)
>
> you might give mplayer a try as well, I used to use xine but now I moved to mplayer.
> Some pointers are on the page: 'HOWTO get your G400/450 singing and dancing'
> just the nvidia drivers off course and the mplayer documention place is really(!) good.
>
> AP
>
>
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Tom Hallaran
Informatics
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