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Create Self-Booting Movie CDs (O'ReillyNet)
Robert Bernier
explains the process of copying DVD movies onto bootable Linux CDs
in an O'Reilly article.
"Here are the steps you should follow: 1. Read the DVD and convert it into an AVI. 2. Break the completed AVI into files small enough to fit onto a CD. 3. Use K3b to create a new eMoviX project/CD for each AVI volume. 4. Burn away." (Log in to post comments)
Create Self-Booting Movie CDs (O'ReillyNet) Posted Aug 27, 2004 16:31 UTC (Fri) by gowen (guest, #23914) [Link] Ahhh, would that it were this easy. I know he mentions its inscrutability, but configuring and compiling mplayer, to support the 7 zillion proprietory codecs, is the bane of my life.
Create Self-Booting Movie CDs (O'ReillyNet) Posted Aug 27, 2004 20:39 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link] Yeah, It's very hard to get mplayer to support a codec that you choose yourself...
I'd count that as a "doh!" if I were you... ;p
Dennis
Create Self-Booting Movie CDs (O'ReillyNet) Posted Aug 27, 2004 20:42 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link] ...And now that I read the article in full, I'll put my foot in my mouth and try to do a "doh!" through my toes...
Dennis
Then use Mandrake... Posted Aug 28, 2004 12:06 UTC (Sat) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link] ...and let the Penguin Liberation Front do that for you. FWICS, the same codec pack also servers most of the other players on Mandrake, but I normally use MPlayer anyway.
Then use Mandrake... Posted Sep 3, 2004 8:42 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] The command line example he gives in the article worked straight out of the box on my Mandrake machine. No fiddling required.
PLF is surely a must have for Mandrake users...
MPlayer giving you fits? Try xinelib. Posted Aug 28, 2004 13:31 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] > configuring and compiling mplayer, to support> the 7 zillion proprietory codecs, is the bane > of my life. Not to get into a vid library holy war, here, but I read somewhere in a similar comment some months ago that xine/xinelib generally "just worked", where the poster had gotten tired of always struggling with mplayer. So, I tried xine, which my favorite media player front-end, kmplayer, now supports, and guess what? They were absolutely right! Where mplayer invariably left either a blank screen with audio, or good video but no audio, xinelib "just works". Of course, I'm sure there are some codecs that are new or rare enough that it won't /always/ "just work", but it certainly has for everything I've thrown at it, including some real media I didn't expect it to play at all, and several files that mplayer would only play either the video or the audio on, but not both, as I mentioned above. So.. I haven't had to go into the technical details nor do I want to, so I can't explain why, but xinelib has saved me from /having/ to go into all that. Try it. You may well find it "just works" for you too! Duncan
I've had good luck with vlc Posted Aug 30, 2004 0:46 UTC (Mon) by aashenfe (guest, #12212) [Link] I know it's realy meant to play steams across the network, butthe Videolan client (vlc) seems to do a really good job with almost any format I throw at it. Mplayer and Xine seem to be a little on the flaky side on my system. Xine for instance will sometimes play a file and other times just choke on the same file and lock-up. I can't seem to get Mplayer to play anything. Maybe there is something with my system, but I've never had a problem with Vlc, not even a lockup.
I've had good luck with vlc Posted Aug 30, 2004 15:46 UTC (Mon) by crankysysadmin (guest, #19449) [Link] Yes, yes, yes. I tried mplayer and afterwards had to break a large number of Hummel figurines to make myself feel better. Then I switched to xine and was very happy for a very long time, until I started using DVDs more often, when the UI began to annoy me. I switched to vlc and suddenly discovered the world of streaming as well, and I have never looked back. If vlc-gnome wasn't so broken, I would be a 100% happy man, but the OS X interface ain't so bad, actually.
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