Totem with the xine backend is fine for pretty much all DVDs. MPlayer is also a great player; I just like the Gnome support. It isn't really that difficult to sort out Ubuntu with everything you need. Just go to getautomatix.com and click the link, and that's basically it. Hopefully Feisty will further improve the ease with which this sort of stuff can be installed, since one of the high-priority development projects is better handling the automatic installation of codecs when they're needed (as well as educating users on why they aren't installed by default). On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 13:01 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote:
Sadly ubuntu out of the box has a shortage of good codecs and support for such. Do a google to find more info. While I have found mplayer to satisfy all my needs, others will probably recomend alternative solutions especially for dvd playback
On 04/01/07, elroy <elroy(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Well, not really.
I struggled to get Win2K running stably on this system for a month or so (IBM Netfinity 5100 - I still don't know if it is supported :P ), but I NEED to be able to access USB devices.
Win2K ran semi-OK, until ANY USB device came near it. Then BSOD after BSOD.
My camera wouldn't work, my scanner wouldn't work, my USB stick wouldn't work...
Had several old machines with data I needed to get onto this one, so one day I got frustrated and popped in (to old machines) an old Ubuntu CD I had (Warty?). Plugged in USB stick, and there were my files/pictures.
Gave it a go on the IBM, seemed to run alright. Decided to install it on the IBM, seemed to run alright.
Still working on the following though:
DVD playback - MPlayer? Multiple AVI/DivX/Etc - MPlayer? ... ...
Will post more later - stuff to do :-)
Elroy.
James Pluck wrote:
And no MS withdrawl symptoms?
James.
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