DVD Players (Re: PLUG is live!)

[Digital Wokan]

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.
> 
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