[ALUG] Recommended DVD player?

[Simon Elliott]

Greg Thomas wrote:
> Can any recommend a DVD player for Linux (Ubuntu, specifically)?
>   
I'm pretty sure it's a known bug that Totem doesn't follow DVD menus 
properly. There's some issue which I can't remember of the top of my 
head......

Anyway, I will third xine. It works brilliantly for me on Ubuntu. It's 
great because it allows you skip chapters which are normally blocked 
from skipping on normal DVD players.

If you want to set it up to autoplay a DVD when you put it in;

Go to...
 Systems->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media
 Multimedia tab
 and add

xine -f -B dvd://

in the "Video DVD Discs" Command box and tick the "Play video DVD discs 
when inserted" checkbox.

The -f there defaults to fullscreen and begins to play the DVD straight 
away so no mucking about required. :) the -B means borderless which is 
cool, to move the window around alt+click&drag (if you didn't know 
already) Xine commands are f (or double click video) to bring it out of 
full screen, g to bring up the GUI.

Another tip, if you've got Compiz enabled and you move the window around 
or minimise it you'll notice the video overlay not working as you'd 
expect, leaving a blue background where the video should be... This is 
solved by opening the preferences in Xine (right-click->Settings->Setup) 
change Configuration experience level to "Master of the known universe" 
change to the video tab and select xshm in the video driver to use.


--Simon