Linux and HD-DVD - what can play it ?

[Carpo]

as title says what can play these discs and more importnatly the .evo files when they have been backed up :)

[Sirber]

our only hope is to wait ffmpeg to decode proprely .evo, then VideoLan Client and mplayer will handle it :)

[Carpo]

after more investigation its a moot point as the pc that can play them has no drivers under linux from what i can see, all they have is nforce 4, which i dont think mine is - that and my board isnt listen under the nvidia require ments :(

[Sirber]

a driver could be done for xbox360 HD DVD usb drive

[Carpo]

i meant the whole nforce board has no drivers atm :(

[mic64]

The Xbox HD-Drive is being recognized w/o problems.
Unfortunaltey you can´t access it right away cause UDF 2.5 is not supported yet.

[jruggle]

our only hope is to wait ffmpeg to decode proprely .evo, then VideoLan Client and mplayer will handle it :)

FFmpeg can demux evo now, and mplayer can play VC-1 and AVS video. It will probably be some months before a full E-AC-3 decoder is implemented though. Worse yet, AFAIK, the Dolby lossless audio format (and probably the DTS one too) would have to be reverse-engineered... :(

-Justin

[Carpo]

so in a word im boned then? unless i get a standalone player - which at £400 is a bit much, or i stick with Windows :(

unless someone else knows how to get an M2N-SLi deluex 590 AMD mobo working under linux ?

edit: devil post 666 :devil: :devil: :devil:

[strc]

Are there currently any windows tools that can transcode E-AC3 into another format (AC3, etc). It would sort of be a pain, but using an external audio track with MPlayer is easy.