Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Lombard DVD decoder software

[Joshua King]

I've used Mplayer/Ogle and to a lesser extent Xine for playing DVDs on a
333Mhz iMac w/o hardware decoding and it works okay (it's not perfect and
can stutter a little) so you should be okay with software decoding.

I had to install Panther on the machine so now I'm using VLC for DVD
playback, but I can't comment on its speed in Gentoo. VLC plays perfectly
In Mac OS X, you probably won't get the Apple DVD Player to run though (I
don't know what graphics you have in the Lombard...)

All of those are in Portage.

Joshua King

On 2/7/05 6:17 AM, "Colin" <signofzeta@×××××.com> wrote:

> Sweet, I found a Lombard on eBay for about $100.  Trouble is, it's the
> 333 MHz motherboard without the hardware DVD decoder.  Do I need the
> hardware DVD decoder to watch movies under OS X and Gentoo, or will a
> DVD player application perform its own software decoding?  (The PC Card
> decoder isn't an option, that's for my wireless card, though I'm up to a
> motherboard swap.)
>
> --
> Colin

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