In message <Pine.GSO.4.33.0207191016410.7373-100000@math.rice.edu>, Richard Rau
ch writes:
>The system it would go in has an 800MHz Athlon, and I could use either
>PCIIDE or SCSI.  The videocard is a ~5-year old PCI S3Virge/GX (/DX?) with
>4MB of RAM.  I could upgrade the video card if need be---but without DRI
>support, I've pretty much seen the video card as about as good as it's
>going to get.  (^&

You might want to upgrade it a little bit, just because modern cards are
often better.

>Any recommendations for necessary hardware, and prefered pkgsrc tools for
>playing DVD movies?  (I've seen ogle mentioned from time to time...does it
>work well?  I know that with MPEG animation players, there's considerable
>variation in quality of playback...)

Ogle is awesome.  The only tricky thing is that, if you felt the need to
violate a flagrantly unconstitutional law, or you didn't live in the U.S.,
you'd need to download "libdvdcss" yourself and build it by hand.

-s