Re: Creative DVD Player

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Andy Parker wrote:

> Just when I was about ready to show Win98 the nasty side of fdisk, my
> wallet goes out and buys one of these things....
> http://www.soundblaster.com/pc-dvd/encore-6x/
> (it all happened while I was asleep you understand) So now I've resigned
> myself to being BSOD worshipper for at least another few months.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm expensive ;).

> The DVD Rom was some 4Gb in size. This mounted fine but what is
> the maximum size for a Linux partition ?

Depends on the filing system; linux itself doesn't handles files
therefore has no limits ;)

> Are there any software players for DVD files ? Doing 'file <blah>'
> on them reports them as MPEG encoded data files so I remain
> hopeful that one day I'll be able to use this as a DVD player under
> Linux.

Hmmmm. Mpeg players are out there (mtv, etc., do a search on freshmeat),
as to playing straight off DVD, dunno. I know there's an ac3 decoder out
too, but I have a feeling it ain't real time. Basically, you might find
some software, but you'll probably need an evil pc to run it.

> Any pointers to Linux/DVD resources would also be very much appreciated.

http://trylinux.com/projects/udf/ may be useful.

> Best regards from sunny California to sunny Sheffield !

Git. Dronfield (10 miles out of Sheffield) is cloudy overcast at the mo.
Bring me sunshine. . .

Cheers,

Alex.

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