On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 10:16:12 +1300 Daniel Lawson <daniel(a)meta.net.nz> wrote:
Santa was nice to me this year and gave me a Pioneer DVR-108 for christmas. After installing this into my gentoo box, I was fairly happy to see that I could run
gmplayer dvd://
And have it start playing the dvd. However, it appears that mplayer isn't so good at playing the root menu.
After some discussion on IRC, totem was suggested. I'd never really liked totem, and had found mplayer a much better player, but I tried it.
Currently it seems that DVD playback with the gstreamer backed to totem is dead. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71519 implies rebuilding totem without gstreamer support should do the job, but that seems tedious.
Does anyone have any experience with DVD playback under linux? (distro agnostic, I'd just like to see what software/versions people are using)
I have always been very happy with vlc. Well til after Santa Dropped off a Windows optimsed DVD of "Pirates Of the Caribbean" - it will only play the tiles before crashing. The DVD works fine in windows!! Bah!!! John