LiVid / linuxvideo

[Tim Schmidt]

I've had great/limited success with Xine depending on your point of view.  I 
DL'd "complete" Xine with DeCSS already compiled in, installed it, and was 
able to play every DVD I tried.  However, crashing was rampant -- especially 
when switching chapters.

Thanks for the heads up on videolan, I'll have to try it.

--Tim


>From: Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu>
>To: Greater Lansing Linux User Group <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
>Subject: Re: LiVid / linuxvideo
>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:42:49 -0400
>
>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...)
>
>--
>Edward Glowacki				glowack2@msu.edu
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>                 -- Jules de Gaultier
>
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