[lug] DVD recommendations

[j davis]

I dont know what you mean by "encoded" dvds really ...buy my dvd player 
(toshiba)
works fine with xine,ogle,and other players , i must be misunderstanding?

jd





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> > That said, I've heard that Xine, which comes now with RH7.3, can be
> > built with a library that you can get off the net which allows it to
> > play encoded DVDs.  I've also read that a 533 Celeron or 800Mhz Cyrix C3
> > gives pretty decent playback quality with Xine.
>
>It can.  I spent a few hours trying to track down what was needed.
>Finally got it to work (I think) but forgot what all I had to do.  I
>think I decided a while ago that watching a dvd on a computer isn't much
>fun and I'd rather watch it on the tv (the tv is about 10 ft from the
>desktop computer that has the dvd drive).
>
> >
> > You will need a DVD drive and typically the kernel needs to have SCSI
> > support built in because SCSI emulation is required for the DVD drive.
> > My experience is that DVD drives are well supported in linux.
>
>I didn't have to do scsi-emulation for my dvd drive.
>
>FWIW,
>
>Hugh
>
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thanks,
jd

jd at taproot.bz
http://www.taproot.bz

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