[plug] DVD Distro with Remote

[Tim White]

Looking at turning a nice laptop into a part time DVD player. As windows 
sucks at lots of stuff and I like the Linux DVD players better (Played with 
Xine, and Mplayer) I would like to dual boot it. This will also hopefully 
be faster than booting into windows.
I need a DVD Distro that will basically just boot straight into the DVD 
player and play DVD's. IT would be nice if it could also play music and 
DivX's, Xvids and other compressed video files.
The main feature I need is remote control functionality. Windows doesn't 
allow you to use the Infared port for that as it's drivers have complete 
control of it for file transfers. I have boot KNOPPIX and used XMMS to test 
the remote and it works fine.
If I can't get a Distro that has all this then I will build one my self 
from a KNOPPIX CD but I need to know what DVD software has remote support 
and how easy it is to use.
Thanks
Tim
p.s. Windows also does funny stuff with the sound card when playing DVD's 
as it likes to mute it when I press pause. I would also still like to be 
able to use the volume buttons on the keyboard and/or remote but this isn't 
as important.

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