[ltp] movies on x20

[Karl Klashinsky]

I have the P3-500 model of the x20.

Make sure you get the so-called "gatos" drivers and install them.

I've used mplayer (works great), but want to try xine and/or ogle, too.

Here's a "tip" for travel mode... I've shuffled partitions on my x20 so
that I have lots of space under /home.  You can "pull" the .iso image
off of a movie dvd, and store it onto your hard-drive.

Travel without the DVD "slice"... mount the .iso using the loopfs, and
point mplayer at the mounted iso (use -dvd-device option), and... you're
watching a "dvd" without the dvd drive attached.

I've actually found the performance/quality to be better, seems to me
that the dvd drive in the bay isn't the speediest (but note, I have an
older x20).
 
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 23:46, Bartlomiej Swiercz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:35:46PM +0100, Nils Grundback wrote:
> > I'm thinking about buying a used Thinkpad x20, the P3-600 model.
> > 
> > I usually watch a lot of movies on my computers so I'm very interested
> > in knowing how well this works with this model.
> > So have any body tried to watch divx/xvid and/or mpeg2 (svcd etc) movies
> > with the x20?
> 
> Hi,
> I've ThinkPad 600E with PII/366MHz and 128MB ram. My grilfirend doesn't
> have a computer and we alwayes watch movie on my thinkpad :). We are
> using to watch divx and dvd, and my machine is enough fast to doing it.
> When you buy x20 you'll have a lighting ;)
> > 
> > How well did it go, did it drop any frames etc?
> > What program did you use?
> I use mplayer for mpeg, dvix, and ogle for dvd.
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