[TriLUG] dvd players for linux?

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 06:28:25AM -0500, rpjday spoke thusly:
>   what's the choice for linux dvd players these days?  i've just
> skimmed some info about ogle, and am about to try it.  any better
> choices?  particularly for my dell with the ultra xga screen, which
> might cause some additional problems.  and i'm running a 16M
> nvidia geforce2 go, if that makes a difference.

I've been happy with Xine and/or Mplayer. You can get Xine from
http://www.freshrpms.net/ with decss enabled, and mplayer if at
http://www.mplayerhq.hu - and mplayer will allow you to use some
Windows dlls to get it's codexes!

Both read DVDs, bot will play back divX files. I've had better luck
with mplayer recently.

HTH, YMMV.

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