[NTLUG:Discuss] Fun things to do with shiny discs you don't r eally own.

[Steve Egbert]

Actually, I'm running burnt gold-DVDs on my Apex 600A.

Now that he mentions this, I'll post a review shortly.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cox [mailto:cjcox at acm.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:14 AM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fun things to do with shiny 
> discs you don't
> really own.
> 
> 
> Sure.... we all know that you are making hundreds of copies of the
> discs for distribution overseas....
> 
> Come on Stephen... tell the truth, no one really wants to JUST play
> DVDs on Linux!
> 
> :-)
> Chris
> 
> Stephen Klein wrote:
> > 
> > I found this story about a project called Xine on Linux 
> Today a couple
> > of days ago, thought some of you might find it interesting, 
> in case you
> > missed it.  It's a simple mpeg/VCD/DVD(unencrypted) player 
> that shows a
> > lot of promise, and is already useable (if somewhat inconvenient).
> > 
> > Here's the URL:
> > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-16-012-06-OS-SW
> > 
> > I must say, I'm impressed.  It runs perfectly on my 667MHz 
> P3 with Xfree
> > 3.3.6 in 16bpp color mode.  For the most part, audio and video are
> > perfectly synched, but I've noticed some things (not sure what) that
> > throw the sync way off.
> > 
> > Of course, none of the extra DVD features such as menus are 
> working at
> > this point in time, perhaps some day they will be.  
> Currently, it does
> > not continue on to the next "VOB" file after getting to the 
> end of the
> > current one, so you have to close the program and manually 
> increment the
> > file name and then start Xine again.  Doing this, I was 
> able to watch
> > the only unencrypted DVD I had, it was the demo disc that 
> came with my
> > A/V DVD player.  Xine, by default, does not come with 
> software to decode
> > the encryption that is on most DVD's.
> > 
> > There is a simple method for thumbing noses at 
> organizations that aren't
> > too popular. <wink>
> > 
> > Xine is also extensible via plug-ins so that new features 
> can be added.
> > <wink wink>  (sorry, something in my eye) <wink> :-P
> > 
> > Enjoy everyone,
> > Stephen
> > 
> > p.s. I kinda took a cue from the Linux Today article in the 
> wording of
> > my message. ;-)
> > 
> > Yohan : I'll explain later.
> > PeeWee: Later, always later.
> > --from the Smurfs
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