[MPlayer-users] Live CD with Mplayer / gmplayer?

[Fabio Papa]

peter kostov wrote:
> Hi, I need to be able to play videos (incl. encrypted DVDs) on a
> (unknown) windows machine (laptop?) without installing anything (yet)...
> 
> Because Mplayer has played anything I have watched on my PC until now
> and because of the stability and low cpu usage I want to use exactly
> mplayer. 
> 
> I prefer to have gmplayer too, because I will not have the possibility
> to explain windows users how to start mplayer from the command line.
> 
> So I know about movix2 but it lacks DVD support (libdvdcss). I know I
> can add it, but is it enough to just copy libdvdcss-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm
> into the movix dir, as I understand the README? (I have mplayer
> installed but have no libdvdcss.so on my system, only libdvdcss.o)  Is
> not the used version of mplayer is too old? Does movix2  have support
> for cyrillic subtitles?
> 
> And I need to be ready tomorrow, so I have no time for testing...
> 
> So any help, suggestions, links to software and guides, I can use, will
> be highly appreciated!

Have you had a look at geexbox already? I think it does what you need...
But it needs to be tested on the machine, because it doesn't work
that well on all the pcs I've tested...

www.geexbox.org

Fabio.