Movix

[trongy]

I don't know if anyone has seen this but the movix project movix.sourceforge.net lets you easily create bootable cdroms with linux and mplayer. eMovix is the simplest and only takes up about 5 meg. You can boot from the disk and it will start up mplayer in the framebuffer (or optionally using vesa) and play the movies on the disk. Movix is similar, but has a menu, enabling you to play movies from your hard disk. Movix^2 is much larger and has X. You can swap cdroms after you have booted. The hardware detection generally works pretty well.

I am burning my cds with emovix so that when I lend them out my friends can watch them even if they don't have the windows media player filters.

Chris