[plug] DVD players

[Tim Bowden]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 21:29, John Knight wrote:
<snip valuable detail>

> .deb packages for all of these proggies are avaialable on the official 
> websites of each project if you'd prefer to go that way. xine comes in two 
> parts, the xine-lib and you then pick a UI for the top, the default is best 
> for most people. MPlayer do not support the binary packages and would prefer 
> you built from source. IF you need help with it, my article went up today at 
> linux.com (shameless plug coming):
> 
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/01/1940236
> 

Thanks for the detailed reply and link to your great Article.

An interesting observation from the videolan site, in the debian
packages section, they support woody and sid, but claim sarge is to hard
to  support and you really shouldn't be running sarge unless you know
what you're doing. I would have thought sid was the hard one to
support.  Anyone able to offer more than a guess as to why sarge would
be so hard to support?

http://www.videolan.org/doc/videolan-howto/en/ch02.html

Tim Bowden

> cheers!
> John
> 
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Just a quick question to those who follow the multimedia scene on Linux-
> >what is the best DVD player these days and where can I get .deb's for
> >it? There are plenty of comparisons on the web, but mostly they are out
> >of date due to the rapid rate of development that is going on in this
> >area.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Tim
> 
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