A presentation

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, tony wrote:

> Le mar 04/11/2003 à 22:38, Carwyn Edwards a écrit :
>
> > >>My main machine is now a hush mini-ITX Epia-M machine. I hope to sell
> > >>these machines with a Linux desktop installed (DVD playback is my
> > >>current battle).
> > >>
> > >>
> > >To get DVD playback, go to http://freshrpms.net
> > >Matthias has all the necessary codecs and packages there to watch DVDs.
> > >
> > >
> > http://forums.viaarena.com/ is the place to look in the
> >
> > OS Arena -> Linux Arena area
> >
> > Actaully, skimming them just now :
> > http://www3.sympatico.ca/howlettfamily/epia/epia.html
> >
> > .. seems like the best place to start.
>
> The Redhat 9 RPM there were debugged by myself... They "work" but the HW
> mpeg2 stuff is very buggy and the modified version of Xine must be run
> as root.
>
> When I said "DVD playback is my current battle" I meant that it was what
> I am working on right now. My next step will be to get the RPMs to build
> on Fedora.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but AFAIK both mplayer and xine
from rpm.livna.org work perfectly. (using myself)

> Cheers
>
> Tony Grant
>

behdad