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

[peter kostov]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:07 +0200, Fabio Papa wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks Fabio!

Can the geexbox CD be unmounted after startup so it will be free for
DVD, CD etc?
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