[CLUE-Talk] DVD Playback

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I tried DVD with VideoLan on a stock RedHat 7.2 install. Worked just
great. I did not do any tweaking to get it working. I don't know if
it is a software or hardware issue. You can get videolan at:

	http://www.videolan.org/

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On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:15:50 -0600
Dave Price <davep at kinaole.org> wrote:

> I tried running DVD movies thru my linux box for the first time with
> questionable results.
> 
> I was able to get output from both xine and ogle easily; but both apps
> had a lot of skips in the video.
> 
> I am running a p-iii 550 w/ 384mb RAM and using a phillips atapi dvd
> drive.  I have activated DMA on the dvd drive.
> 
> Is this enough 'hardware' to expect good results?
> 
> What kind of hardware should I need to get excellent results?
> 
> Any advice on other players that would make use of modest hardware?
>