[TriLUG] DVD Software

[Nathan Conrad]

The mplayer video player does support DVD menus when compiled with the
dvdnav library, IIRC.

Although, I've had video syncing issues with mplayer recently; I
usually find that ogle is smoother, but my computer has a crappy video
card so that could cause problems.

-Nathan

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:27:34PM -0500, The Crocodile wrote:
> I currently have the SONY DVD+-R/+-RW drive. I picked it up from BestBuy
> for about 130$ after rebates about 2 months ago. I have burned about 5
> DVD-R media with no issues whatsoever. I have tested it and used it
> under RH9 and Fedora Core 1. I use K3B for my burning software and use
> gmplayer for my DVD viewing software. The version of gmplayer that I use
> (and I *think* all g/mplayer versions) do not support DVD menus. Some
> other software does but I haven't had the need so I just use gmplayer.
> K3B does a great job and recognized everything without any hassle
> whatsoever.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> --T
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:52, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > jsevans at nc.rr.com wrote:
> > > Intrex is selling DVD burners for $100, so I bought one with hopes that it
> > > will work with Linux.  However, I have not had the best of luck.  So far,
> > > I haven't even had enough luck to even watch a DVD movie with this drive
> > > in Linux.  SuSE said that it couldn't because of copyright issues, and
> > > Mandrake said that it couldn't read the movie with Xine or Mplayer.
> > > 
> > > Does
> > > anyone have any suggestions here concerning movie players and recording
> > > software.  So far, I can only use it under windows, with it's pre-packaged
> > > OEM software and with Nero.
> > > 
> > > Jason
> > 
> > Not sure about watching, but looking at the Intrex site, I see that
> > the drive in question is a DVD+R/RW.  IIRC, DVD+R/RW didn't used to
> > be supported under Linux (only DVD-R/RW was).  I'm pretty sure it *is*
> > supported now, but I don't know what level.  Can anyone speak to the
> > various levels of support in linux for the various different
> > types of DVD writers? (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM)  Kevin?
> > You've probably had a DVD writer longer than anyone on list.  Care
> > to comment?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
> 
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