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. > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
