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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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All of those are in Portage. |
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Joshua King |
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On 2/7/05 6:17 AM, "Colin" <signofzeta@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Sweet, I found a Lombard on eBay for about $100. Trouble is, it's the |
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> 333 MHz motherboard without the hardware DVD decoder. Do I need the |
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> hardware DVD decoder to watch movies under OS X and Gentoo, or will a |
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> DVD player application perform its own software decoding? (The PC Card |
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> decoder isn't an option, that's for my wireless card, though I'm up to a |
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> motherboard swap.) |
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> Colin |
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