On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Geoffrey Romer wrote:
> > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstable? I > > > am willing to build from source if I have to but would prefer something > > > packaged. > > > > VideoLAN is great (www.videolan.org) and Xine works well too > > (xine.sourceforge.net). > > VideoLan was the only one I could get to work easily (there's a .deb > somewhere for the css library, and once that's in it'll play encrypted > DVDs. It works great- my only complaint (aside from the lack of > menus/subtitles, which is minor) is that the sound is very tinny and > noisy compared to windows-based DVD players. My guess is there's some > sort of problem handling Dolby Digital encoding, because it's present > in every audio-output plugin I've tried. The latest release of videolan has a really fantastic downmix of surround to stereo. Give that a try. -jwb
