Recomended Program for DVD / Video

mrhodes · Guru Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 310 Location: Halifax, NS

Hello everyone...
I was just wondering what people here are using for DVD / Video playback? I emerged xine, but I'm not too happy with it. It takes a very long time to start, and I can't seem to get DVD playback working... I see Mplayer around a lot on the boards, is that a good program?

Thanks for any advice...

Mike

copy · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:10 am Post subject:

Mplayer is the best.. :)

jaymz · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 9:48 am Post subject:

you can also use ogle or videolan (vlc).... these are quite good

Malakin · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 7:51 pm Post subject:

Both xine and mplayer start playing in under a second on this lowly P3-800, probably something wrong if there's a large delay before playing.

I prefer xine but use mplayer as a backup. pornview is excellent for jumping around between videos otherwise you have to run xine/mplayer, then close it, then open a new video which is annoying (it uses xine though).

S_aIN_t · Guru Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 488 Location: Ottawa

xine and mplayer are both quite good. i am not sure what kind of system is the minimum req for playing dvds. but i can watch divx and so on.. on a p3-550.. so you should be able to watch dvds without a problem.

hope this helped

idl · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 9:16 am Post subject:

xine doesnt have support for encrypted DVDs... all mine are encrypted so xine is totaly useless.

I tried ogle-gui and its amazing, picture quality is the best i have seen, even better than PowerDVD and its worked first time on every DVD i have tried.

When i first tried to play DVDs on the output was choppy, this was because i didnt have DMA enabled on my DVD-ROM. If you do decide to try olge make sure you run:

evidence · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 85

xine has support for encrypted dvds. just emerge xine-dvdnav. it's my dvd player of choice.

koala · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 2:01 pm Post subject:

And there is different performance if you mount the drive or you don't :-b