[CLUE-Talk] Just wondering

[Kevin Fenzi]

>>>>> "Don" == Don Collier <collierd at email.com> writes:

Don> I understand that there is no "official" support for a linux dvd
Don> player and that there are some small legal concerns here but I am
Don> going to ask anyway.  Does anyone know of a dvd player for linux?
Don> I have looked around and found some things that might possibly
Don> work if you have nothing else to do for the next couple of years,
Don> but nothing that seems user friendly.

nothing is working very well right now. 

There are two projects that I know of:

http://www.linuxvideo.org/

(the OMS project...open media system). I have been following their
player for like the last year or so. At times it has almost been
there, only to break again under a code re-write. ;( 

And:

http://xine.sourceforge.net/

These guys just came out in the last little while and they seem to
have pretty rapid devel, but I can't get things working on encrypted
dvd's, and the non encrypted ones seem to play fine for about 2minutes
and then blow up. ;( 

Don> Just asking because this is one of only two things that keep me
Don> dual booting with windows.

yeah, also intervideo was supposed to have a commercial linux one out,
but it's been total vapor ware. ;( 

kevin
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