Posted by dos-man 64 on 12/26/07 22:04

On Dec 26, 4:36 pm, "PapaBear" <PaPaB...@thebears.x2x> wrote:
> "the dog from that film you saw" <d...@removethisportionbtinternet.com> wrote
> in messagenews:5ten85F1dcup1U1@mid.individual.net...
>
>
>
> > "PapaBear" <PaPaB...@thebears.x2x> wrote in message
> >news:yDhcj.32616$JD.10319@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...
>
> >> I'm not familiar with the Linux decoder suggested by the dog... I took a
> >> quick look and it seems technically complicated, like many of the Linux
> >> programs for Windows.
>
> > it's as simple as simple can be - you run the program, drag the file, it
> > plays.
>
> Most things look a lot easier after you've already done it once... :)
> You're probably right that it works OK, but it takes some persistence to get
> started and over the newbie learning curve hump. I took a quick look at
> their website, tried to read some descriptive info, and it hung my IE6
> browser. Apparently it was making a long download of some kind, which I
> didn't request. I waited a minute or two. I had to kill the iexplore.exe
> process with CAD to escape. I tried again a couple of times and the same
> thing happened, so I tossed in the towel. Maybe someone who really needs it
> would persist and figure it out. I was only looking quickly out of
> curiosity.

Like most Linux programs it's about 40 megs. Probably installs about
100,000
different files on the system, too :D

I got it to work though. Choose File, Open File, Disc Tab > DVD radio
button, then click OK.
Works.

Thanks Dog!

Dos-man

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