[Linux] DVD on SuSE 6.4 ?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:15:59PM -0500, Dean Benson wrote:
> 	I have recently acquired a DVD player for my Armada laprop that runs
> SuSE 6.4.  The problem is, I can't seem to find any DVD players for it.  Anyone
> else out there with any info or luck?  I've heard of LiViD but I haven't been
> able to get it to install any of the packages ... I do know that there is
> kernel support for mtrr in SusE's 2.2.14 kernel ...

I've had good luck with the recent Livid CVS code. I could never get their
release code to work correctly.

The instructions on the web site are a bit old. You don't need to make the
named pipes or prestart mpeg2dec or ac3dec, they are now liked directly
into the threaded ap.

Just compile, install, run once the DVD is mounted. It handles CSS okay. You
might need to go in and out of the playlist and clickety-click around to to
it to play. It's certainly buggy but you can watch a full move and the
audio/video stays in sync.

You must have a fast system. I've seen it work on a Athlon 700
w/G400+XF4.0+Xvideo and it was.. It ran smooth. It also ran well on a dual
p3 600. If you don't have a video card capable of hardware filtering and
YUV->RGB (and the assoiated software, either MGAVID + XFree3.3 and
XF4/XVideo) then the requirements will be (my guess) 30% higher.

I doubt it work okay on something like a PII 400 yet.. Maby I'm wrong, I
don't follow the Livid development list. Certainly, I'd be interested in
knowing the minimum usable configuration.

You need to have at least a 2.2.16 (or was it 15?) or a patched version
prior to that (which many distros ship with, RH 7's 2.2.16-22 has it) to
support the UDF filesystem and the kernel hooks required for the CSS auth.

If you get it working and watching movies, you might want to send the people 
at the 2600 magazine for putting their butts on the line to keep the code
available that LiViD needs to play most movies.