On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Jørgen Ruud wrote: > > I have a thinkpad 600E with 132 mb ram. I going to install debian > testing (woody) on this an I have a few question about DVD and divx on > this machine. > > Will I be able to use the DVD player under linux?, and will this > machine be able to play divX fullscreen under linux?. This machine has > a tv-out-port, how do you tell X to pipe output to it?. > if the laptop has it, you will be unable to use the hardware MPEG2 (aka DVD) decoder as IBM although says it is opensource has not (as far as I know) released anything that will allow us linux users to use the hardware decoder in the laptop.
however the laptop should be of a high enough spec to allow software decoding, fullscreen and in realtime. As for the tv-out-port I don't know. I guess it could be considered as a doubled headed display or something, otherwise if its all done magically in hardware (like a normal SVGA output socket on a laptop) you shouldn't have any problems. however if you had spent 20 mins looking with google on the internet you would probably know all this already.......... :-/ > What programs would solve my problem best? (dvd, divx) Xine? > mplayer, VideoLAN, take your pick. mplayer is my favourite, however you have to make sure you have a happy X installation, that means DGA set up and SDL working nicely for the best results. Alex
