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  1. December 7th, 2004, 08:29 PM #1
    JLQ5454
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    dvd player software for my laptop

    hi i am new to linux and i am looking for a dvd movie playing software for my laptop. can any one help me out .

    thanks
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  2. December 7th, 2004, 08:31 PM #2
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    http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/

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  3. December 7th, 2004, 10:11 PM #3
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    http://www.mplayerhq.com
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  4. December 7th, 2004, 10:36 PM #4
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    The two most widely supported/popular ones are:

    http://www.xinehq.de
    http://www.mplayerhq.com
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  5. December 7th, 2004, 10:47 PM #5
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    xine plays dvds?....i never knew that.
    how would you go about setting up linux to read from your dvd...is their anything special i have to do like scsi emulation?

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  6. December 7th, 2004, 11:06 PM #6
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    Xine does play DVDs, and nothing special needs to be done to your dvd in terms of SCSI, unless you are using a SCSI drive. It's usually as simple as creating a syslink from your /dev/cdromblahblah (whatever your dvd drive is being detected as, maybe cdrom2) to /dev/dvd.

    example:

    /dev/cdroms/cdrom2 -> /dev/dvd

    That way when xine/mplayer accesses /dev/dvd for the DVD-rom, your dvd drive is already pointed towards it. Get what I mean?


    And thanks It's good to be back.
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  7. December 9th, 2004, 10:11 PM #7
    hexadecimal
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    yes makes perfect sense, il have to try that on my crap-top solo 9300
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