LiVid / linuxvideo

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Dennis Kelly on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:14:17PM -0400:
> I experienced the same problems with OMS/OMI.  I was also not able to
> stop, pause, or skip chapters once I hit play.  Xine was a little
> better, but it wouldn't play a few of my DVDs for some reason (it
> would seg fault) and would crash spuratically.  IMHO, the best DVD
> player by far is Video Lan Client (VLC):
> 
>     http://www.videolan.org/
> 
> Development of it is much more rigorous than OMS/OMI or Xine.  It is
> licensed under the GPL, it is stable, and has many features: slow
> motion, fast forward, pause, arbitrary jumps within the stream,
> chapter selection, etc.  I almost resorted to finding commericial
> alternatives until I used it.

I'm close to getting it running on FreeBSD... unfortunately it
fails and core dumps right now...  I've gotten it to spew out some
sound before it dies though! =)  (This is with mpeg files, not
DVD's... haven't tried a DVD yet...)

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