At 09:52 AM 12/19/2003 -0500, John wrote:

My initial attempts with viewing a movie resulted in crashes on Xine and Ogle. I did try to run Ogle from the command line in an x terminal as suggested in a goolge search.

Ogle is the DVD player software I have tried to use. It was the first one I read about that was supposed to be able to play encrypted discs and was supposed to have support for the menus on the DVD. Whether it can play a given DVD or not seems to be a bit of a coin toss. Some times it will work and sometimes it won't. Depends on which DVD you give it and what features the DVD uses. The program seems to choke at start up (ie. before it gets to displaying the DVD's menu) with some DVDs. I haven't tried Xine for movie or DVD playback yet. The one other observation about Ogle is that its playback seems to need more CPU horsepower than the PowerDVD software I use in Windows. PowerDVD is just able to play DVD's acceptably on my Pentium II 266MHz machine. With Ogle under Linux the video playback starts dropping the odd frames which is just barely noticeable.

In regards to burning. I know K3B is pretty good as is CDrecord from the command line. Any other suggestions ?

When I first got a CD Burner, the burner software made the Windows side of my machine unstable so I tried burning under Linux. I XCDRoast for burning these days and it works fine. The alpha14 version (IIRC) had experimental support for direct support of IDE-ATAPI drives but the latest alpha15 version has dropped that for some reason. If you are using IDE drives, you need to tell the kernel to use the ide-scsi module for the (hdc/hdd) drives. In XCDRoast, you would select the SCSI versions of your drives as the ones to use (it will show you both the IDE and SCSI versions). Also, since you have DVD writers, you can get the ProDVD plug-in for XCDroast which allows you to write to DVD disks. If you check last months Linux Journal they have more information on software to make the image files for a DVD. Cheers! Kevin. (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/) Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 |"What are we going to do today, Borg?" E-mail:kcozens at interlog dot com|"Same thing we always do, Pinkutus: Packet:ve3syb-XXPEJ3/fxIc at public.gmane.org#con.on.ca.na| Try to assimilate the world!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | -Pinkutus & the Borg -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml