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Joshua King wrote: |
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>I've used Mplayer/Ogle and to a lesser extent Xine for playing DVDs on a |
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>333Mhz iMac w/o hardware decoding and it works okay (it's not perfect and |
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>can stutter a little) so you should be okay with software decoding. |
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>I had to install Panther on the machine so now I'm using VLC for DVD |
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>playback, but I can't comment on its speed in Gentoo. VLC plays perfectly |
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>In Mac OS X, you probably won't get the Apple DVD Player to run though (I |
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>don't know what graphics you have in the Lombard...) |
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The Lombards have an ATI video system with 8 MB of VRAM. It's not |
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supported by OS X's Quartz Extreme graphics subsystem (neither is the |
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hardware DVD decoder, anyway, so I read) and it's non-upgradable, as is |
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the case with most laptops. |
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Colin |
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