quickest solution to a DVD player on f9 on a WUXGA laptop?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Oct 23 15:01:51 UTC 2008


Quoting Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>  on very short notice, i've been asked to put f9 on
>> my old dell inspiron WUXGA 9200, and install a DVD player
>> to drive a WUXGA projector just to test the video.  so,
>> what's the quickest/fastest solution, after i install
>> stock f9, to get a DVD player that will play in fullscreen
>> just to test the video quality?
>>
>>  my first guess is VLC from livna, but i'm open to
>> anything that's even simpler.  i don't need fancy controls
>> or anything, i just need to be able to drive a full WUXGA
>> signal out to an external video sink to see the results.
>> thanks.
>>
>> rday
>>
>
> As much as I like VLC, I love Goggles.  It is simple and works great
> with DVDs.

   huh ... never heard of it.  i found RPMs for FC6 here:

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/apt/fedora/6/en/i386/RPMS.voidmain/

do you know that those will work with f9?  laptop is installing
as we speak.

rday




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