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How about a DVD player for the desktop?

How about a DVD player for the desktop?

Posted Nov 22, 2002 18:58 UTC (Fri) by stonedown (guest, #2987)
Parent article: Software DVD Player for Embedded Linux

It's no problem for me to get the decss plugin for Ogle or Xine, but it's a showstopper for the average computer user. I think it would be smart for Mandrake to partner with Intervideo so they can include a software DVD player with the next release of their distie. These sort of things should work out of the box.


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How about a DVD player for the desktop?

Posted Nov 25, 2002 3:53 UTC (Mon) by hexCAESAR (guest, #5214) [Link]

That'd be nice and all..... if it were Free Software, but that ain't gonna happen!

How about a DVD player for the desktop?

Posted Nov 25, 2002 9:16 UTC (Mon) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]

When I installed ogle via apt-get on my woody (Debian 3.0), it asked me if I want to install decss also. I answered yes, and it automagically downloaded, compiled and installed decss. I think it is quite comfortable even for an average user.

Bye,NAR

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