Re: Divx and DVD playback
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:10:14PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote:
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> From: AnotherLinuxGuy [mailto:anotherlinuxguy@comcast.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:55 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Divx and DVD playback
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>
> what is the best of the best when it comes to a program that does
> playback of divx and DVDs? i have heard Xine and Mplayer, in Xine i get
> no sound, i use esd or dsp i think, its on a compaq armada m700 laptop,
> and in mplayer i get a segment fault right off the bat, but they dont
> have a deb package and i just downloaded their rpm and used alien to
> convert it, so i wasnt to hopefull in the first place. does anyone have
> any other suggestions on programs that "just work" right out of the box?
>
>
I'd say it's Mplayer from Source, plus copious amounts of time to
(a) learn how to compile it [1) lots of -dev packages are required;
2) debian/rules configure requires tweaks; 3) lots of dlls need to be
in downloaded] and all that.
Then if you have a desktop with a good Alsa environment and an Nvidia
or an ATI you're set. It took me quite a bit longer to get MPlayer not
to segfault on my 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop with a Chips &
Technologies graphics chip. (It played Movies fine in XP -- it's old el
crapo driver issues). For instance, I had to tweak X quite a bit, *and*
use the SDL compat libraries to avoid the **YOUR SYSTEM IS TOO SLOW**
messages or segfaults. It took a couple weeks, but it finally played
DivX like a champ. (Well, audio drifted quite a bit. 500mhz P3 w/ old
as hell graphics -- just barely up to specs).
I expect your Armada will be a bit too but hang in there. It's worth
it.
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