Re: DVD player

2003-03-05 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hi! Dvdnav should depend on dvdread, which in its turn recommends you to install css functionality. There's a script included for this: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread2/examples/install-css.sh Another possibility is to add some package rep. which includes this support. Look at www.apt-get.org. The Vi

Re: DVD Player w/KDE 3

2002-12-11 Thread Frederik Dannemare
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:31:51AM -0500, David Ellis wrote: Has anyone had any luck with DVD Playback on Debian with KDE 3? Can you point out a good player (and maybe a website) with a download and HOWTO? I believe mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) can handle this, even DVDs with th

Re: DVD Player w/KDE 3

2002-12-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:31:51AM -0500, David Ellis wrote: > Has anyone had any luck with DVD Playback on Debian with KDE 3? > > Can you point out a good player (and maybe a website) with a download and > HOWTO? I believe mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) can handle this, even DVDs with the moronic CS

Re: DVD Player w/KDE 3

2002-12-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:31:51 -0500 (EST) "David Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had any luck with DVD Playback on Debian with KDE 3? > > Can you point out a good player (and maybe a website) with a download and > HOWTO? > - David I like MPlayer... there is a "debian way" to build i

Re: DVD Player w/KDE 3

2002-12-09 Thread Dana J. Laude
On Monday 09 December 2002 08:31 am, David Ellis wrote: > Has anyone had any luck with DVD Playback on Debian with KDE 3? > > Can you point out a good player (and maybe a website) with a download and > HOWTO? I just ran across this link today, although it looks like good software. Give it a try.

Re: DVD player

2001-12-20 Thread Kent West
Thomas Halahan wrote: I don't understand why I can't get my K6-2 400MHz, and Rage IIC greaphics card to give good playback. In the DVD howto I see that you need io ctrl in the Kernel. Could it be that I do't have this feature enabled? Is it really that critical. I guess I want to know w

Re: DVD player

2001-12-20 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > I don't understand why I can't get my K6-2 400MHz, and Rage > IIC greaphics card to give good playback. In the DVD howto > I see that you need io ctrl in the Kernel. Could it be > that I do't have this feature enabled? Is it really that > critica

Re: DVD player

2001-12-20 Thread Thomas Halahan
I don't understand why I can't get my K6-2 400MHz, and Rage IIC greaphics card to give good playback. In the DVD howto I see that you need io ctrl in the Kernel. Could it be that I do't have this feature enabled? Is it really that critical. I guess I want to know what is the likely weake

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Romuald DELAVERGNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Christian Schoenebeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Really? What's the name? I haven't found one named trancsode or > > similar. > > You install this package with dpkg (It come from marillat packages) > So 'apt-cache search transcode' can't

Re: DVD player

2001-12-06 Thread Aaron Traas
Peter Good wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Video RAM is nearly irrelevant. Anything with 2MB can do > > 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD. > > This might be a silly question, but why then, do they sell video cards > now, > with at least 8mb stan

Re: DVD player

2001-12-05 Thread jan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > You should consider adding > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main > ... > Walter I don't sugest packages from that source, at least mplayer package is out-of-law (other DVD stuff probably too) and primary reason is that wrong compiled, it is

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-05 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2001.12.05 16:06, Joachim Trinkwitz a écrit : > "Christian Schoenebeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > For transcode exists even a Debian package in unstable. > > > > > Really? What's the name? I haven't found one named trancsode or > similar. >

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Christian Schoenebeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For transcode exists even a Debian package in unstable. > > > Really? What's the name? I haven't found one named trancsode or similar. Maybe because of your spelling? ;) $ apt-cac

Re: DVD player

2001-12-04 Thread Walter Hofmann
Christian Schoenebeck schrieb am Monday, den 03. December 2001: > Hi! > > Are there packages for viewing video DVDs? I haven't > found some. You should consider adding deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This server has plenty of DVD players and oth

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-04 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
> For transcode exists even a Debian package in unstable.> Really? What's the name? I haven't found one named trancsode or similar.   Christian Schoenebeck

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-04 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Joachim Trinkwitz on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:48:21AM +0100: > Thomas Hallaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Transcode is pretty much the only option for linux dvd -> other format > > conversion (ripping). I haven't used it however. > > http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~os

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Thomas Hallaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Transcode is pretty much the only option for linux dvd -> other format > conversion (ripping). I haven't used it however. > http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ For transcode exists even a Debian package in unstable. Greet

Re: DVD player

2001-12-04 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 09:54, Peter Good wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > This might be a silly question, but why then, do they sell video cards now, > with at least 8mb standard, with 32mb in a lot, and in my case 64mb? Mostly to store more textures for 3D rendering.

Re: DVD player

2001-12-04 Thread Cassandra Lynette Ludwig
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Peter Good wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Video RAM is nearly irrelevant. Anything with 2MB can do > > 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD. For film-source DVDs > > you want 72Hz or 96Hz refresh so you need a RAMDAC of 82MHz or 11

Re: DVD player

2001-12-04 Thread Peter Good
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Video RAM is nearly irrelevant. Anything with 2MB can do > 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD. For film-source DVDs > you want 72Hz or 96Hz refresh so you need a RAMDAC of 82MHz or 110MHz > respectively. The other consideration for

Re: DVD player

2001-12-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 19:17, Alec wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2001 03:32 pm, Timo Boewing wrote: > > Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Ogle also has issues. > > > > mh, so far i discovered none, but also watched only two movies with > > it (T2, Episode1). From my point of view, ogle seemed to have

Re: DVD player

2001-12-04 Thread Mike McGuire
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:03:26PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Can you also give me some hint which programs I can use for ripping DVDs > or can you point me some docs on the web to get more information about > that? mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) plays DVDs (needs libdvdread, and

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Alec wrote: How much RAM on the video card? I'm wondering what kind of hardware one needs to play DVDs and MPEG-4s under Linux. Alec The Laptop: PIII 850MHz w/ 256MB SDRAM 133, GeForce2Go w/ 16MB DDR, Desktop:Athlon A 500MHz w/ 384MB SDRAM 133, GeForce 1 w/ 32MB DDR works mostly liq

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Alec
I have a K6-2 550Mhz CPU + 256Mb of RAM. The Video card is on-board with only 2Mb of RAM (not upgradable) I'm wondering if I should get a DVD drive or it will be a waste of money. Any way to find out? Can I download DVD-quality MPEG2 files somewhere so I can test my system power with `plaympe

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Peter Good
Back before I upgraded, with an early version of Xine, early version of Captian Css's d4d, a celeron 433, riva tnt2 32mb agp, and 128mb ram, i used to get quite respectable performance watching dvds. I was running Nvidia's X4 drivers though, and also, using Xv in xine, worked quite well. They do re

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Alec
On Monday 03 December 2001 03:32 pm, Timo Boewing wrote: > Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > Ogle also has issues. > > mh, so far i discovered none, but also watched only two movies with > it (T2, Episode1). From my point of view, ogle seemed to have the same > probs on smooth cam movements like all th

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Ogle also has issues. mh, so far i discovered none, but also watched only two movies with it (T2, Episode1). From my point of view, ogle seemed to have the same probs on smooth cam movements like all the other players have (linux and windoze). May this be due to har

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Thomas Hallaran wrote: http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ http://www.hut.fi/~mhkinnun/downloads/dvd/LXDODRIP.ZIP Hey, thanx for these hints! greetings, Timo

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-03 Thread Thomas Hallaran
Transcode is pretty much the only option for linux dvd -> other format conversion (ripping). I haven't used it however. http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ there is also http://www.hut.fi/~mhkinnun/downloads/dvd/LXDODRIP.ZIP but it looks like this has not been updated

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Hello Chris, sorry, i cannot further help with this. i was glad that dvds work on my linux box, but i never ripped one. those i know still use windoze :-( So far, the old trick "warez dvd rip linux" (or similar) on google should help. greetings, Timo

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Along the same lines... Is there any good software that will allow me to take full advantage of some of the multimedia cards that have full A/V in and out?  And also backup a DVD.  Just in case the original gets scratched? Christian Schoenebeck wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht---

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Timo Boewing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Montag, 3. Dezember 2001 20:38 > > Hi Chris, > > there is also ogle. I also tried vlc and xine, but i got the best > results with ogle. why? vlc suffered from hangings and segfaults on my > system, and l

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 11:37, Timo Boewing wrote: > >> There are : vlc and xine DVD players. > > > Hi Chris, > > there is also ogle. I also tried vlc and xine, but i got the best > results with ogle. why? vlc suffered from hangings and segfaults on my > system, and later on i never could get ac

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
There are : vlc and xine DVD players. Hi Chris, there is also ogle. I also tried vlc and xine, but i got the best results with ogle. why? vlc suffered from hangings and segfaults on my system, and later on i never could get acceleration to work (e.g. via libsdl). Xine did also some "pumping

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Jérôme Marant wrote: >> Are there packages for viewing video DVDs? I haven't >> found some. > > Because you didn't search at all. Or you probably don't > know how to use search engines or apt-cache. No, I used dselect. > There are : vlc and xine DVD players. Ok, they are not part of 'stable'

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Jérôme Marant
Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Hi! > > Are there packages for viewing video DVDs? I haven't > found some. Because you didn't search at all. Or you probably don't know how to use search engines or apt-cache. There are : vlc and xine DVD players. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Jim McCloskey
Following up on my own message to correct a mis-statement. I wrote: |> Xine is now very mature and very stable. The Debian packages (even |> in unstable) lag a little behind, This is wrong (I was looking in the wrong place). The package xine-ui in unstable supplies the most up-to-date version of

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Arno
Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like Mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). To my knowledge there is no debian > package > Some non-offical debs, for testing and unstable: http://marillat.free.fr/ I'm using the unstable ones, work great.

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
Jim McCloskey wrote: David Harrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Therefore, I'm asking this esteemed group which combo of DVD Player |> software does it for you..plus what limitations does your chosen bit |> of software have? Xine is now very mature and very stable. The Debian packages (even

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Alan Shutko
Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of RAM. Is this > sufficient to play DVDs using a software player? It probably is, but may not be depending on the disk and the player. Linux software players are generally not as highly optimized as Windows

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:06:16PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > system. I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of > > RAM. Is this sufficient to play DVDs using a software > > player? > I believe your video card is a (considerable ??) factor in DVD > playback too. What kind do you have ?? I

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> 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 suffic

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
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 D

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
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 comman

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, David Harrigan wrote: > Hiya, > > Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) on DVD. Now, > I'm left wondering - I could play this on my Windows ME machine, or I > could play this on my Linux (Debian :) machine. I know which one I > would prefer Therefore,

OT -- Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) > on DVD... Uhhh, where are you from ?? It's not supposed to be out until tomorrow... You have friends at a video store or something ?? Hall

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:46:01PM +0100, David Harrigan wrote: > Hiya, > > Well, I just went out and bought TPF (The Phantom Menace) on DVD. Now, I'm > left > wondering - I could play this on my Windows ME machine, or I could play this > on my > Linux (Debian :) machine. I know which one I would