DVD Players (Re: PLUG is live!)

[Digital Wokan]

Okay, again but in English... Start from the part where I put in my DVD
and press the play button on the software...

Jason wrote:
> 
> Digital Wokan wrote:
> >
> > 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.)
> 
> If you've got a spare free several gigs, theres no reason you couldnt
> decode it first, right? Better still, choose a display size and
> framerate that will use around, say, 70% of your CPU power, and then
> run the decoder in the background, reniced to 10. tail the output file
> to your mpeg player.
> 
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