Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

bigpup · Posted: Thu 18 Nov 2010, 22:14 Post subject:

Something to look into. Talk of a new kernel patch that does some very interesting changes.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=62053

Fishy · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 195

Hi Stu, torrents are located in the download folder outside of the save file. I have a folder located outside of the save file containing folders labeled Downloads, Music, e books, Calibre (library), Misc and Pictures. I learned quite a while ago that I lost too much when I screwed up my Puppy. Laughing

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Playing DVD's

Karl G made me aware of this--since I don't play DVD's very often I didn't know.

Anyway, it seems to me that a software DVD player should play the dvd just like a "real" dvd" player. I was very disappointed to find that gnome-mplayer and smplayer do not do that. This is another thing that everyone but me knew I am sure.

I spent most of yesterday investigating. Really, I think a linux distro ought to have a DVD player that works correctly.

Ogle does not work correctly with Openbox, but it does work correctly with JWM, and it is very small. Gxine prepared by Karl does work correctly to play dvd's in Openbox but it is too large to include in the distro. VLC plays them correctly and works with Openbox. "Playing correctly" means displaying all of the menus, at least--playing them like a standalone player *and* going to full screen correctly.

What do you DVD watchers think? Are there workarounds that you use? The simplest solution is to put both gxine and ogle in PPM.

Thanks.

??? Rename gxine to Xine DVD player and make up for the 2MB by taking something out of mplayer (the extra high performance files).

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

vlc has been my dvd and movie player all the time. It handles many codecs also. Also subtitles handling works fine. Only thing is to change fonts path to use puppy font aka select one. If there is need for one good player, i havent find better than vlc.

Size matters also. Vlc is big and it is already in repo. And there is now many 1.x vlc pets around murga-linux to use.

Because I need working subtitles handling, not many apps meets my criteria for both dvd and xvid avi use.

stu90 · Posted: Fri 19 Nov 2010, 11:37 Post subject:

I very rarely play DVD's on the laptop so just had a go with 237 and the default gnome mplayer.

Insert DVD and i get a mounted CD on the desktop click on it and it opens with Gnome mplayer to the DVD menu, right click on the video screen and select full screen or press F key. Video plays ok from menu selection and no problems in full screen?

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1495 Location: Ontario Canada

Ogle plays dvd movies well in Wary.

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4350 Location: merriam, kansas

live · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 108

DVD Player

Happier with SMPlayer than VLC which is slower to me.
Plays everything FLV, wma, wmv, ....

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en

eeepuppy · Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 33

How is it possible that when you download a program Puppy Package Manager and SFS GET do not work and Quickpet work fine? (See pic)
I refer to the previous post to say that the icons have reappeared when I changed the color depth from 16 to 24 bits in xorg.conf but all the other problems remain. (XPLNS not working yet)

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

XineDVD DVD Player - Coming Very Soon to a Puppy PC Home Theater Near You!

A full-featured, dedicated DVD player. Insert the DVD. Start XineDVD. Click DVD on XineDVD. Use all the navigation keys: Skip, FF, etc. Menus work. F to toggle fullscreen. G to toggle controls. Extensive configuration options. Plays the whole DVD, even the dumb warnings. Downloadable skins.

Not to say a word against gnome-mplayer, Smplayer, VLC, or Ogle, all of which remain available. They will all play DVD's, but IMO they play them like a media player. XineDVD plays them like a DVD Player, which again IMHO, is what the "windows refugees" we talk about expect to see (my wife for instance Wink

I am comfortable with it also.

Personal Note: Xine was the first Linux software that in my experience *outperformed* Windows software. It could play discrete 4-channel when all the commercial Windows PowerDVD could do was that matrix surround. That was years ago of course.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

bigpup · Posted: Sat 20 Nov 2010, 03:03 Post subject:

Barry has done some changes to one of the boot scripts, /sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe.
It has helped to cure the sound muted at boot, or network connection not remembered at bootup.
Get the pet here;
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=469044#469044

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

Bugfix released Grub4DosConfig v1.6.2.
# 20nov10 v1.6.2: fix RAM mode, fix puppyoptions, single item for single windows, wubi support
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697

Lobster · Posted: Sat 20 Nov 2010, 04:31 Post subject: