Laptop DVD Player

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Laptop DVD Player
started by: photozel

Posted by photozel on Mar. 10 2005,16:32

I have access to an older laptop, 1.2 ghz, with a DVD player. Being cheap I would like to set it up to boot Linux and auto matically start a DVD player for my car (Daughter). It is feasable to mount the LARGE TFT display and have it play DVDs only. Any ideas? Set the LT to boot and run only the DVD software, no overhead, fast boot as possible.

Thanks in advance.

David

Posted by gunnix on Mar. 10 2005,20:06

Yes, you should try Geexbox Linux. It's especially made to play DVD's and videos only. It's a live cd of only 6MB! And it's about the only thing that gets my ati tvout working

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grtz

Posted by AwPhuch on Mar. 11 2005,02:57

Quote (Guest @ Mar. 10 2005,15:06)

Yes, you should try Geexbox Linux. It's especially made to play DVD's and videos only. It's a live cd of only 6MB! And it's about the only thing that gets my ati tvout working

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grtz

OOOH very nice!

Only 6 Megs! Daaaaang....DOC (disk on chip) stuff would rock here!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by photozel on Mar. 18 2005,14:34

Thnak You!!!! THe Gee is the thing!!!!! :cool: