Resources for the December 2003 “DVD Players” print article.
Resources
Players:
MPlayer: www.mplayerhq.hu
Ogle: www.dtek. chalmers.se/groups/dvd
VideoLAN Client: www.videolan. org
xine: xinehq.de
Ripping:
mencode (available in the MPlayer package): www.mplayerhq.hu
transcode: www.Theorie.Physik.UNI-Goettingen.DE/~ostreich/transcode
dvd::rip (GUI for transcode): www.exit1.org/dvdrip
Burning:
Burning CD/DVD Under SuSE Linux: seismo.ethz.ch/linux/xcdroast.html
DVD Burning Under Linux (Erik Burrows describes his experiences): www.erikburrows.com/index.php?node=DVD+Burning+Under+Linux
GEAR PRO Linux for DVD/CD-RW/Tape (a very complete commercial package for burning/recording digital media): www.gearsoftware.com/products/ProLinux/index .cfm
Kernel Patches:
Linux Scheduling Latency (Andrew Morton's low-latency patches): www.zip.com.au/~akpm/l inux/schedlat.html
Preemptible Kernel Patches (good things from Robert Love): www.tech9.net/rml/linux
Audio Stuff:
A Comparison of 13 4.1 and 5.1 Sound Systems (a review at the “Tom's Hardware Guide” Web site): www6.tomshardware.com/video/20020325
ALSA (home page for the “Advanced Linux Sound Architecture” sound dr ivers: www.alsa-project.org
General:
DVD Playback on FreeBSD: www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/2710
DVD Resources for Open-Source Development (excellent site, especially for xine users): dvd.sourceforg e.net
DVD Ripping and Transcoding with Linux: www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux
Fine-tuning MPlayer (by Arpad Gereoffy): freshmeat.net/articles/view/747
GNU/Linux DVD Player Review (by Jon Kent): www.linuxjournal.com/article/5644
Linux DVD Players (a Freshmeat category review by Catie Flick): themes.freshmeat.net/art icles/view/568
LiViD (home of the Linux Video and DVD Project): www.linuxvideo.org
xvattr (Freshmeat page for the helpful utility): freshmeat.net/projects/xvattr/?topic_id=100125
