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#276426 - 24/02/2006 10:14 DVD player in Linux
StigOE addict Registered: 27/10/2002 Posts: 568	Hi all. What is the best dvd player for Linux? I have Ubuntu 5.10 with all updates as of mid-february. When I try Totem player, the video stutters. When I try VLC, I get mosaic. The Totem player is whatever version that came with Ubuntu (with updates), VLC I don't know as the about box is too wide for the screen... Another thing, do the dvd players in Linux care about regioncoding? If so, is there a program similar to DVDRegionFree for Linux? Stig
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#276427 - 24/02/2006 11:13 Re: DVD player in Linux [Re: StigOE]
pedrohoon enthusiast Registered: 06/08/2002 Posts: 333 Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia	I have found Kaffeine to be pretty good (under Kubuntu 5.04) after installing the MPlayer codecs package. _________________________ Peter. "I spent 90% of my money on women, drink and fast cars. The rest I wasted." - George Best
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#276428 - 24/02/2006 11:21 Re: DVD player in Linux [Re: StigOE]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	I've used Xine with libdvdcss to watch movies on my laptop. Suse 10 comes with Xine but it's crippled so I usually uninstall the xine packages, grab the source and compile it myself. It works really well. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#276429 - 24/02/2006 11:56 Re: DVD player in Linux [Re: andym]
Schido enthusiast Registered: 29/03/2005 Posts: 364 Loc: Probably lost somewhere in Wal...	I made such a mess with codecs and media players in linux, but dvd's seem to be playing well now in vlc. _________________________ Empeg Mk1 #00177, 2.00 final, hijack 4.76
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#276430 - 24/02/2006 12:14 Re: DVD player in Linux [Re: StigOE]
AudunE journeyman Registered: 08/10/2004 Posts: 53 Loc: Trondheim, Norway	Make sure DMA is turned on for the DVD-ROM. I once had trouble with a DVD-player in Linux, cant remember the name, but it turned out that Linux (debian) didnt turn on DMA by default... But you may have other problems _________________________ - Audun E -
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#276431 - 24/02/2006 12:40 Re: DVD player in Linux [Re: StigOE]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14491 Loc: Canada	Quote: What is the best dvd player for Linux? Probably gmplayer, but I very much prefer xine. I have some saved streams that only one or the other of those can play, but between them they'll play everything I've seen thus far. DVDs are flawless (and simple) with xine. Quote: Another thing, do the dvd players in Linux care about regioncoding? I don't think they care at all. Cheers
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#276432 - 24/02/2006 22:51 Re: DVD player in Linux [Re: mlord]
StigOE addict Registered: 27/10/2002 Posts: 568	Thanks, all. I'll get the source for Xine and install that (and check DMA), but that'll probably have to wait untill I get home. Downloading anything at work takes ages... Stig
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#276433 - 25/02/2006 10:25 Re: DVD player in Linux [Re: StigOE]
StigOE addict Registered: 27/10/2002 Posts: 568	I was bored so I downloaded xine-lib and xine-ui (took about an hour or so), and when I try to run Make (after installing a bunch of other packages to get configure to complete), I get a lot of errors and warnings from video_out_xxmc.c. This is for xine-lib. xine-ui needs xine-lib to be installed first. Any ideas as to what I need to do to get it to compile? I also downloaded gxine and it fails with Can't find glib.h. I do have glib.h in /usr/include/glib-2.0 and I tried to create symlinks to various places without any luck... Any suggestions for that one too? Stig
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