[ILUG] Playing DVDs with MPlayer

[Ronny B]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:53:43PM +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 	just thought I'd let those of you who were on this thread that I
> recently did manage to get DVD working *well* on a P2 400MHz and more
> importantly what I had to do.  
That's reassuring; I have several friends who are interested in playing
DVDs with similar hardware, and they're not ready to shell out for a card
just yet.

> 	As he and several others did point out, hardware assistance is best
> used by Xine.  I went to the xine website and downloaded the latest source.
Just a note on Xv etc.:If using MPlayer, the option '-vo sdl' will use SDL
YUV-whatever surfaces, which uses hardware accelleration.

> the binary from debian is some way behind, don't know about the others.
The one in Debian (Sid) has strange problems; it keeps segfaulting on DVDs
that play fine in MPlayer. Still, there is *one* DVD I am unable to play
the main movie from, and that's A Bug's Life. I think "Disney DVD" actually
means different format DVD :/

Anyone had luck with anything from Disney?

> 	So if you're having similar problems, it's very doable on such a 
> machine, get the latest source for xine and compile it, mplayer is not as 
> good it would appear.  I'm using the "nvidia" drivers made by NVidia which 
> are a distance ahead of the XFree "nv" driver. 
If Xine agrees with your box, it bloody well should agree with mine, where
the CPU is the only difference ;)

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O- Nny, encouraged to have another go at Xine