$200 computer and video

[Ken Moffat]

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>An unnamed Administration source, Leon A. Goldstein, wrote:
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>>Joel Hammer wrote:
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>>>I posted awhile back about my lindows box ($200, Debian distro). I noted
>>>that running xine froze  the computer and required a reinstall of the
>>>whole dang thing.  Since then, I have been leery of video, although
>>>realplayer has worked fine.
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>>>I just installed mplayer from the lindows warehouse (I mean, how else can
>>>you view those movies from the weather satellites?). It runs beautifully.
>>>So, there is hope for video on this box.
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>>You need  a small file added in order to play DVD's with xine.  I don't
>>know how Lindows handles this.   Libranet's Xine would not play  until I
>>downloaded the missing codec.  Since there apparently is some legal
>>issue involved, I don't think it appropriate to discuss details here.
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I'm using libranet 2.8 with mplayer and it plays dvd's no problem.
gmplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd
is the commandline I use for the gui frontend. I'm watching "The 
Fellowship of the Ring" as we speak.

-- 
Ken