Dvd Playback

[palfrey]

Has anyone tried playing DVD with the GP2X? I don't mean ripped DVDs - I mean actual, straight from the disk DVDs, say connected via the breakout board and a DVD drive with a USB connector?

On a similar note, has anyone tried playing .avi's (divx encoded of course) or games from cd/dvd via the same route? I'm considering buying a gp2x as a the core of a "home media centre" thing, and being able to play DVDs, movies and random games would be very nice.

 

[sehs33]

I asked the same question earlier and never got a reply, I was wondering mainly to know whether it can be used to test psx4all emu and for he same exast reason palfrey here is asking.

 

[god_at_hell]

DVD is not possible at the moment, 'cause there's no fast mediaplayer for mpeg2 content and you have to implement a way of decrypting css by implementing decss .... which is illegal in some country's.
The other thing should work, if the cd/dvd-drive identifies itself as standard mass storage device. If not, support for usb-atapi bridges has to be build into the kernel or provided as module. I have to admit, that i could be wrong on the last part, 'cause i don't really know how a usb-dvd/cd-drive identifys itself .... i know there's a special driver for them in the vanilla kernel