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

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 10/24/05, peter kostov <mplayer at light-bg.com> wrote:
> 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?

Even better, it's automagically ejected after the full system is up
and ready (at least, last time I checked).

Guillaume

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