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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:40:00 +0000 Richard Brown wrote:
Software - movies rather than roms! Rich On 2 Jan 2005, at 17:28, Terence McCarthy wrote:
Quite a lot of people rave about Xine, and I must admit, if you're used to "PowerDVD" style software, then Xine has a very nice feel to it. Pretty much all configuration can be done GUIwise (it even has an option to restrict what you can/can't change depending on your expertise - Beginner, Advanced, Expert, Master of the known universe), but some of the options can be a little confusing. If you haven't got DeCSS then don't even think about playing anything other than unencrypted discs... which are (from what I understand) quite rare. There is also the mighty MPlayer. It too has a GUI. It doesn't appear to be part of any Debian Sid sources, but it's *really* easy to compile by hand. I would recommend you get "checkinstall" whilst you're at it (makes + installs .deb files from source). If you get the Win32 codecs then you can play pretty much *anything*. It even handles encrypted DVDs without using DeCSS... I think what it does is the first type you play a disc it generates a hash to identify *that* disc, it then does some serious number crunching to establish how to decode it and stores the two together. Next time you insert *that* disc it just re-reads the hash and viola it'll play the movie nicely. It's also an absolutely fantastic command-line player - so many options! You can probably guess which is my favourite! Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.