Re: Creative DVD Player

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.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.
>
> The device functions perfectly under Linux (2.2.5) as a 24X CD Rom drive.
> If I insert a DVD, Linux mounts it up and I can see the movie files. This
> leads me to two questions:
>
> The DVD Rom was some 4Gb in size. This mounted fine but what is
> the maximum size for a Linux partition ?

I believe Linux has a 4gig limit for a maximum filesize, and ext2 has a limit
of it's own on FS max size. ext3 should be transactional and also remove all
these limits, I have a feeling that the 4gig filesize max is simply a value
you can alter if you are brave in the kernel srcs, but it might have side
effects.

> 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.

If 'file' notes it is mpeg then that _is_ good. You could just run xanim on
the file, but a better mpeg player is mtv, which is a shareware app
(disabled). This calls mtvp which is free, and can be used with some command
line parameters to play videoCD images so should work on your file. You can
get it at www.mpegtv.com. It works really smoothly when I've tried it.

I've seen Linux mount DVD disks before, but I assumed that was a different
type of disk, one for data, or like a DVD ram disk. I thought the ones that
worked in DVD players for your TV were a different format all together.

Damion

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Damion Yates - Damion.Yates [at] bbc.co.uk

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