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Linux DVD Players Reviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-want-my-dvd dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Linux Journal have posted a review of DVD players on their site. Interesting review, that covers most of the main players, although there are a few minor errors." I've settled on Xine since it does most of the divx, wmv, and mpegs I want to see. If it just did Sorenson QT, it'd be perfect.

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  1. Hardware Decoders? by Kenja · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since the review is allready dead to the world, I tought I'd ask the people here if htey knew of any Linux based DVD players with support for hardware decoders such as those by Creative Labs and Real Magic.

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    "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
  2. Xine, worst interface ever by gnugnugnu · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Xines support for DivX (with a little help from wine) alone makes it worth using for me but aside from that i really dont like Xine. I like Gnome, I like KDE and I think the open source software has become hugely more easy to use in the past few years.
    Xine however has possilby the worst interface I have ever had the misfortune to use.
    Someone decided that it would be a good idea to implement their own file open dialog and playlist and design in a way that bears no resemblance to any other interface i have ever used. Using, or at least trying to use Xine is cruel and unusual punishment.
    I suggested it to a friend who wanted to watch some DivX files and the interface was so bad it mad him laugh (then cry).
    And to add even more potential for confusion it uses its own skinning system.

    Gnome Xine will hopefully be a vast improvement and have the sense to bear at least some resemblence to quicktime/microsoft mediaplayer/realplayer.

  3. DVD APIs? by Malc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Where do the DVD API's for Linux stand? These days it's becoming relatively simple under Windows thanks to DirectShow. Anybody can write a DVD player as they don't need to do any low-level stuff: it's just a matter of making API calls to the navigator. Can the same be said for Linux? E.g. what would it take to write a Mozilla plug-in so that I could display a training movie within a web page - a plug-in that would work for most DVD players/decoders without having to write custom code for each?