[lug] Video -playing- with Linux

[Gary Frerking]

Thanks for bringing up the topic, it was very interesting.

I'm currently working on a multi-media clip for a trade show
(essentially a kicked-up video/animation "commercial" in the form of a
video clip). All the tools I'm using (Adobe Premiere & After Effects;
and SonicFoundry's ACID) are Windows-based, so I guess I was
automatically in the mode of thinking I'd use Windows so show it too
(duh). But hey, my laptop is a dual-boot(!) -- so your message got me
wondering if presenting the show on Linux might be a better option.

I will be feeding the video (full-screen) to a fairly large (42") plasma
monitor.  Disk space likely won't be an issue -- but I want to keep the
quality as high as possible, and *cannot* have dropped frames / jumpy
playback.

The video software I've got available is pretty flexible -- I can dump
the clip in most halfway common formats.

Based on your research and experience, can you make any recommendations
as to what would be the best approach for pulling this off?


-- Gary