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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Date: 19 Dec 2002 01:46:47 GMT
> OK... I have heard some votes for ogle and others for xine.
> - Are there any significant advantages or disadvantages of one over the > other if all you want to do is watch movie DVDs?
I have always had trouble getting xine to work.
> - Again, I am looking for the good stability and movie features, > similar to PowerDVD for windows? (including resizing screen size, > title/chapter navigation, good fastforward/reverse and skip, etc.)
ogle allows almost all of these. The only thing which is unimplimented is stop (pause is fine) and reverse or fast reverse. Jumping back to the start of the current section is fine.
They have a large selection of fast and slow forward speeds (only normal speed with sound of course). It has good title/chapter/section navigation. Resizeing the screen with infinite precision is fine.
Bill Unruh
I have xine, ogle, videolan, and mplayer installed. On my system, only mplayer provides smooth playing without any jumpiness but it occasionally crashes. Only xine allows adjusting brightness (mplayer is supposed to, but for whatever reason it doesn't work on my system). Videolan (vlc) has nice menu features. Ogle seems very rudimentary to me. These last two both play commercial DVDs without having to search around for a decryption library. Overall I prefer xine, but your experience may be entirely different.
Charles Sullivan
> Only xine allows adjusting brightness (mplayer is supposed to, but for > whatever reason it doesn't work on my system).
The filtering system mplayer uses is not obvious unless you've read the man page and started mplayer from a command line so you can see the error output. Try this (stuff I wrote on Nov 2, 2002, reposted:)
"man mplayer" suggests the -brightness option. It defaults to 0, you can set it to any integer between -100 and 100. However, it doesn't work all the time—dang. The manual also suggests adding the command line option "-vop eq=bright" , and if you do that, you should be able to adjust the brightness interactively by pressing the "3" and "4" keys.
Or you can edit ~/.mplayer/config and add a line like this:
vop=eq=bright:50
..and it should also work. HTH,. Matt G
>Is dma required to play DVDs with any program? I see that my dma is not >enabled and I am having trouble with DVDs.
It can help. If your problem is that the playback of DVDs isn't smooth then enabling DMA can improve things.
>How do you go about enabling it?
hdparm -d 1
John
Yes, dma allows the data on the dvd to be read into memory much much faster. This prevents things like missed frames. For example on my 2.4GHz system, using dma and the dvd displays at 24 frames pers sec which is the rate it is supposed to. Without it is more like 20 frames /sec, which means a little glitch every sec or so.
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
Bill Unruh
> Is dma required to play DVDs with any program? I see that my dma is not > enabled and I am having trouble with DVDs. How do you go about enabling it?
Ok I believe that I have found the solution by adding:
options ide-cd dma=1
to the end of my /etc/modules.conf file any body see a problem with this.
Charlie