Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)
Thanks for responding to my question.
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:13:57PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> On Mar 05 2002, user list wrote:
> > I'm thinking of installing a 2.4 kernel on a potato box. Is there
> > any problem with stability?
>
> Well, you'll have to upgrade some packages first (mainly those
> related to kernel modules). If the box is not critical (i.e.,
> if it is just a desktop), then upgrading to woody would be
> better.
>
> > Also, I'm trying to install a DVD player. What is the best linux
> > player with debian?
>
> Does it have to come with Debian? If yes, then the best one is
> xine, which comes with woody and can have DeCSS, DVD
> navigation and deinterlacing.
>
> If, on the other hand, you don't care that much if your player
> comes with Debian, I'd recommend you to grab a copy of mplayer
> (http://mplayer.sf.net/). It works very well with all the
> above and the deinterlacing of DVDs is the best one that I
> have ever seen in a Linux box.
>
> To be honest, mplayer with all the add-ons compiled
> (libdvdread2, liblame0, libdvdcss1 etc) is much better than
> the Windows DVD player from Cyberlink that came with my Asus
> Motherboard, even regarding the deinterlacing of movies.
>
> The only "problem" with mplayer is that you'll have to compile
> it yourself, but since it has a debian directory, compiling is
> as easy as "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot" (be sure to
> install the build dependencies and anything else you would
> like installed, like development packages).
>
> I guess that you won't be able to compile it with potato,
> though.
>
> You will also need quite a bit of cpu power to watch your DVDs
> deinterlaced. And a relatively recent version of X, with
> support for the xv extension for your card.
>
I have upgraded my box to woody (testing) and I've installed mplayer. I don't
remember a liblame0. I ask because the movies are pretty slow. Here are the
specs. of my box
600 MHz Athlon
756 M CRAM
Matrox Millennium G200 (16 MB)
12x DVD-CD rom drive
30GB Hard disk
Two general questions:
1. If this is a fast enough box, what are the switches that I need to
improve speed. I can't (or don't know how to) access DGA. Is this important?
2. If the box is not fast enough what is (are) the critical piece(s) to
upgrade?
Thanks again for the response.
>
> Hope this helps, Roger...
>
> P.S.: Another problem with mplayer is that it is not exactly free,
> since it includes non-GPL'ed parts.
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