Re: tlug: Linux DVD

["Austin K. Kurahone" <austin@example.com>]

Marcus wrote:
>Country code shouldn't be a problem since this is only a bit that has to
>be checked by the player soft- or hardware, unless you have a third
>generation DVD-ROM which also checks the country code by itself. The
>Linux software players don't support country code ;-).
Futz, I have one of the 3rd generation Toshiba drives, would this be
what's interfering with the playback???

>What kind of CPU do you have. I tried it with a Dual Pentium III 450,
>where  nist ran without problem ( in this case it was a binary I got from
>the net) and on my notebook with a Pentium 233 MMX ( here I had to
>recompile the source). On the notebook it was a little sloooooow, but
>what do you expect. If you use mpeg2dec it is supposed to be a lot
>faster, since they have included a lot more optimization. Maybe you
>should download a free vob somewhere and try if that works (maybe at 
>http://www.trailer-inside.de/). I just got the Star Trek Trailer and
>it plays fine with nist on my notebook (mpeg2player -na -vob -f
><filename>  (no audio so I won't disturb my hardworking coworkers)). 
>It also works with mpeg2dec, but is much slower (extract_mpeg2
><filename> | mpeg2dec -). I have no DVD right now, but I will try it
>at home.
Whowa! Downloading videos!! With the kind of connectivity in Japan! ;-)
I'm afraid that isn't quite an option.  I use a Dual Celeron 500 Mhz (No
overclocking yet...) on a A-BIT BP6 board. (Dual socket i370, too bad I
can't seem to find any more boards...)  SMP works just fine in Linux BTW,

Yours,

Austin K. Kurahone
Tokyo Linux Users Group
"It didn't matter.  Not when all mistakes could be left behind at twelve hundered miles per hour."  --Ringworld

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