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  From: Andrew Speer <andrew.speer@isolutions.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:17:42 +1030

Re: encrypted DVD's

I am using Mplayer compiled with libdvdread and libdvdcss to play DVD's. It 
is refreshing to just put a DVD in the drive and have it play. I have a 
fairly fast CPU (> 1Ghz), so I cannot comment on how it will play on slower 
CPU's, but on my machine full screen is not a problem, no dropped frames etc.

MPlayer:
http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/

libdvdread and libdvdcss:
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd

I also have a Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card, which can be utilised by 
Mplayer to play DVD's to a TV through the SVideo connection, although I am 
not 100% happy with the way this works (output can be jerky, and get out of 
sync with sound).

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. I have $2000 of hardware that does not play 
DVD's onto a TV as well as a $250 DVD player ! I guess I have fun trying 
though.

What may be of interest to others though is that the Mplayer will play *any* 
supported media type through the Hollywood plus card to the TV. At (last time 
I checked) around $180 it is a relatively cheap way of getting a form of TV 
out on a linux box.

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