On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:55:55PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > My favourites are xine and mplayer. > > xine is GUI based and has a cool looking, starts to support DVD menus but > > sometimes segfaults with the d4d plugin (you need this for css DVDs) > > http://xine.sourceforge.net > > > > mplayer is command line based has a few less features but it is very robust > > with the css stuff. > > Search at freshmeat.net. > > This reminds me that I've been meaning to ask this question for a long > time. I have a DVD drive that someone gave me when I upgraded their > computer, and I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to install it in my > system. I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of RAM. Is this > sufficient to play DVDs using a software player? Give it a try and let us know :) I don't think it will be fast enough, but you might be pleasantly surprised. -jwb
