Hopefully they can do something to let me use the hardware decoder then. I've got the ReelMagic Hollywood+ which the company keeps (irately) stating will _never_ have Linux support (as we all know, that just means from them). I've seen what software decoding looks like, even on 600+ MHz systems and I'm not impressed, especially for full-screen playback. (That's a lot of work for a standard CPU when you add decoding on top of everything else.) I'm on my to linuxvideo.org in a sec. Hopefully it plays well with this Mandrake 7.2rc1 (somebody has to be a guinea pig). :) Ken Bowley wrote: > > Don't let that DVD drive go unused! Check out the Livid project over at > www.linuxvideo.org. The recent CVS snapshots have made great strides in > turning Linux machines into DVD players! My test machine at work (Celeron > 400) can actually play DVD's in a watchable format, and a message on the > Livid mailing list reported at a PIII 600 with 128MB of ram played the DVD > as well under Linux as it did using WinDVD under that legacy OS. :) > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Digital Wokan wrote: > > > Then I cheer him on! I have a DVD player from before I got into > > Linux. I haven't bought a DVD in recent history though since I would > > have to reboot to use it. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= O- > Ken Bowley/SysAdmin mailto:johann@vikingsystems.com > Viking Systems, Inc. http://www.vikingsystems.com > -=-=-=-=-=[Sair Linux and GNU Certified Professional]=-=-=-=-=- > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss