xine, d5d, and hdparm

[fjr at marsdome.dtdns.net (Frank Ramsay)]

Probably old news to some people, but I figure some people may not know
about the xine plugin d5d.

It had been a while since I looked at Xine, so I just installed a newer
version of xine and a plugin called d5d and I have to say it is nearly
perfect and has DVD Menu support.  :)  

It played a bit choppy on my laptop until I turned on DMA with hdparm
(hdparm -d 1 /dev/dvd) but is fine now.
Also make sure to get version 0.9.12 of xine-libs and xine-ui.  The
plugin API changed and d5d doesn't work with the new API yet.

xine: http://xine.sourceforge.net
d5d: http://www.captaincss.tk

      -fjr