I have a player but not a burner. I use xine for viewing. Jan On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:55, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > I have to write some documentation on DVD/VCD players for Linux. I own > a nice new DVD player (dmesg says it's a LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI > CD/DVD-ROM drive) that works well on my machine, though I did have to > discover a few secrets for glitch-free viewing (e.g. my nVidia card > should have its double-buffering turned off). I'm writing not only about > viewing video discs but also recording and ripping them. Thus, a few > questions for anyone in the LAU community using a DVD player and/or > recorder. > > 1. What software do you use for viewing DVDs ? > 2. Do you use that software for watching AVI, MPEG, or other video > formats ? > 3. What software do you use for ripping/encoding DVDs ? > 4. If you have a DVD recorder, please let me know how well it works > for you under Linux, what outstanding problems exist, what software you > use, etc. > 5. Overall, how would you rate Linux DVD support, particularly > compared to Windows or the Mac ? > > I don't own a DVD recorder and I'm curious about Linux users' > experiences with them. > > I've been trying to rip DVDs using the dvd::rip software (based on > transcode) but keep receiving read errors. If anyone has any special > tips for DVD ripping I'm interested in them too. > > My system includes an 800 MHz AMD CPU, two 15GB hard drives (tuned), > 512 MB RAM, an SBLive soundcard, and an nVidia GForce2 (64 MB video > RAM). Kernel is 2.4.18 patched for low-latency. I've been using MPlayer > 0.90 for viewing AVI and other video file formats. I was using MPlayer > for watching DVDs too but have recently switched to Ogle (a better DVD > player, IMO). Frame rate is normally between 24 and 29 fps (that's what > MPlayer reports, I don't really know if it's any different under Ogle). > > I don't really know how to massage MPlayer's parameters, so any advice > for improving video file playback performance is most welcome. Ogle is > pretty straightforward, and the Ogle FAQ yielded some very useful tips > (particularly the pointer to the xvattr utility). > > So, how's *your* DVD player performing under Linux ? :) > > Best regards, > > == Dave Phillips > > The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm > The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
