Posted by: StigOE
DVD player in Linux - 24/02/2006 10:14
Hi all.
What is the best dvd player for Linux? I have Ubuntu 5.10 with all updates as of mid-february. When I try Totem player, the video stutters. When I try VLC, I get mosaic. The Totem player is whatever version that came with Ubuntu (with updates), VLC I don't know as the about box is too wide for the screen...
Another thing, do the dvd players in Linux care about regioncoding? If so, is there a program similar to DVDRegionFree for Linux?
Stig
Posted by: pedrohoon
Re: DVD player in Linux - 24/02/2006 11:13
I have found Kaffeine to be pretty good (under Kubuntu 5.04) after installing the MPlayer
codecs package.
Posted by: andym
Re: DVD player in Linux - 24/02/2006 11:21
I've used Xine with libdvdcss to watch movies on my laptop. Suse 10 comes with Xine but it's crippled so I usually uninstall the xine packages, grab the source and compile it myself. It works really well.
Posted by: Schido
Re: DVD player in Linux - 24/02/2006 11:56
I made such a mess with codecs and media players in linux, but dvd's seem to be playing well now in vlc.
Posted by: AudunE
Re: DVD player in Linux - 24/02/2006 12:14
Make sure DMA is turned on for the DVD-ROM. I once had trouble with a DVD-player in Linux, cant remember the name, but it turned out that Linux (debian) didnt turn on DMA by default... But you may have other problems
Posted by: StigOE
Re: DVD player in Linux - 24/02/2006 22:51
Thanks, all.
I'll get the source for Xine and install that (and check DMA), but that'll probably have to wait untill I get home. Downloading anything at work takes ages...
Stig
Posted by: StigOE
Re: DVD player in Linux - 25/02/2006 10:25
I was bored so I downloaded xine-lib and xine-ui (took about an hour or so), and when I try to run Make (after installing a bunch of other packages to get configure to complete), I get a lot of errors and warnings from video_out_xxmc.c. This is for xine-lib. xine-ui needs xine-lib to be installed first. Any ideas as to what I need to do to get it to compile?
I also downloaded gxine and it fails with Can't find glib.h. I do have glib.h in /usr/include/glib-2.0 and I tried to create symlinks to various places without any luck... Any suggestions for that one too?
Stig