[TriLUG] Software for Linux newbies

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 17:25, Robert Floyd wrote:

> MP3 ripper: grip/blade; I'd recommend LAME if I could get it to compile
> on my SuSe 8.0/KDE 3.0 notebook, but that has been an exercise in
> futility so far. Blade encoding at 192kb lets me make copies of my
> (mostly classical) CD collection with a quality I can hear with my Grado
> headphones.
> 
> DVD player: Xine; the rpms work out of the box, along with the ability
> to watch all my DVDs.
> 

If you're using Mandrake, I would change your mp3 ripper suggestion
to be lame because you can get precompiled (for mandrake) binaries
that integrate with the software manager from the Penguin Liberation
Front (http://plf.zarb.org/).  Also, if you're watching DVDs, I think
Ogle is slightly easier to use, but xine works quite well too.  Both
of them, including the dvd css software and the win32 codecs (i.e.
divx) are included at the PLF site.

Tanner
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