On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 19:52:12 Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 26.04.14 03:32, Robin Humble wrote:
mplayer or vlc from an old hdmi laptop is a pretty good low power solution IMHO. not as low power as those players, but infinitely more flexible. also plenty of gui's if you want them, and cli for those of us who don't.
Replacing my venerable CD-ROM with a DVD drive has moved onto the to-do list. A quick bit of googling suggests that linux compatibility isn't an issue, and they'll mostly be SATA. Internal drives seem less advertised, but not excessively scarce.
Is it the case that some makes (e.g. LG) read scratched discs better than others (e.g. ASUS)? The 3:1 price difference between HP and ASUS doesn't surprise much, since that's usually the cost of the name plate.
Would you like me to bring some DVD drives to the next LUV meeting? I can provide both IDE and SATA. If you'd like to take 5 drives, test them all, and return the ones that don't work so well then that would be fine. I don't have much need for reading scratched discs. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/