[plug] Watching DVD's under Linux

[John Knight]

The drive will be fine, don't worry. As far as players go, this will get an 
hideous reaction from the mailing list (maybe), because this is like asking 
what distro is best, but after going through everything, I find that mplayer 
is best. You'll need a good 500Mhz in your 'puter, but I've found that 
mplayer has the best way of dealing with high motion and the best quality 
picture, not to mention the sound decoding is 'wikid'. You'll have to be one 
to jump into the command line, but this isn't a worry, because you can whack 
in a GUI too, but it's not much use really, because the command line usage 
of mplayer is a 'beautiful thang'. ;)

anarchist tomato

>Hi all,
>
>I am currently in the marketplace for a Notebook computer.  There is one in
>particular that I am currently looking at - a Toshiba Satellite 1800.   One
>of the sellig points (for me) with this particular laptop, is that it comes
>with a built-in DVD player.  However, I plan to run it on GNU/Linux -
>probably Debian.  I would like to use it to watch DVD movies.  I note that
>there are several Linux/DVD projects; does anyone know how mature these 
>are.
>
>Also, given that the DVD drive is instead of having a CD-drive, will it act
>like a normal CD player for me to install the OS using standard Debian 
>CD's,
>or am I going to have to do special configuration just for the machine to
>read the Linux CD's off the DVD player?
>
>Alternately, any suggestions on laptops up to the value of $2,500 that
>support Linux are much appreciated.
>
>thanks heaps guys
>
>David Buddrige
>
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