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post #21 of 37
5/31/05 at 5:25pm
I've looked and can't find anything. You probably need something special in the BIOS to do it, but I don't really know. Try asking somewhere with a lot of hardcore linux users.
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post #22 of 37
5/31/05 at 8:44pm
nothing to do with the bios. it's just a separate booting os, like having a whole partition dedicated for linux, but only using mplayer.
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post #23 of 37
5/31/05 at 9:19pm
but what he wants is to have it automatically recognize a dvd in the drive, and in that case boot the linux player, otherwise just boot windows. There are two ways to do this: One is to have the bios able to tell the difference and pick the right boot (what i think the other companies might do) and the other method is to always boot the linux partition, and it will figure out if you really want to boot windows are not. Those are the only two i can think of, and the second one somehow seems like it wouldn't work that great.
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post #24 of 37
5/31/05 at 9:38pm
2nd seems more credible to me
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post #25 of 37
5/31/05 at 11:40pm
Thread Starter 
Okay I found some info about an Intervideo program, or linux distro, called LinDVD which seems to be the best thing, but it is only available to manufacturers right now.

Apparently the linux distro is small enough to fit on a "read-only chip", of course that doesn't really tell us anything, but if that's the case, maybe you could put it on a usb key and boot from it.

http://www.linuxhardware.org/article...27&mode=thread
http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/LinDVD.jsp

Looks like we'll have to wait unless someone can find another program
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post #26 of 37
6/1/05 at 12:53am
well if we're gonna use a flash drive.. then you can put emovix or movix onto a flash drive or cd.. .. and if you read back a little bit.. the software on the averatec laptops is called intervideo instantON
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post #27 of 37
6/1/05 at 2:08am
yeah, that's something that hadn't occured to me. Just get a linux distro thats usb bootable and has a dvd decoder on it and keep it on a key next to your dvd collection. Just stick it in with the dvd and set the BIOS to always boot usb first.
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post #28 of 37
6/1/05 at 2:41am
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anyone know a good linux distro to use for this?
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post #29 of 37
6/1/05 at 9:22am
look back through the thread a bit......Its called Movix, I posted a link for it
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post #30 of 37
6/1/05 at 9:41am
yeah..the one upside that movix has on the built in averatecs/hp is that you can play divx movies of your HD
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post #31 of 37
6/1/05 at 2:05pm
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can you have movix not boot the HDD, cause I think that would help with battery life, if only the DVD drive boots
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post #32 of 37
6/1/05 at 2:22pm
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looks like the official Movix distribution won't play an encrypted DVDs

http://tinyurl.com/9pvmy

but it says you can find ones that will
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post #33 of 37
6/1/05 at 4:20pm
encrypted DVDs whats the difference between a non-encrypted and encrypted dvd

also .. as far as not booting the hd, there aren't any options not to, but i'd assume it doesnt spin it as long as youre just using the cd drive
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post #34 of 37
6/1/05 at 6:17pm
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an encrypted dvd is pretty much any commercial DVD, it's what keeps you from just making a copy of a DVD
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post #35 of 37
6/1/05 at 7:13pm
mm.. not really.. what prevents you from just making a copy of a dvd is the fact that they're bigger than the 4.7GB blanks they sell, if you have an older dvd, say like, ace ventura: pet detective, which i believe is smaller than 4.7GB, you can make a direct copy of it.


and the version of movix that i downloaded, does play commercial as well as copied dvds
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post #36 of 37
6/1/05 at 8:04pm
Thread Starter 
where did you download it?
commercial DVD's do have a copyright protection on them, maybe not real old one's, but that is why you use DVD shrink or DVD decrypter, before you burn them
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post #37 of 37
6/2/05 at 3:54am
i got it from that link near the beginning of this post,

and even if commercial dvd's have copyrigth protection, burning programs don't stop from burning them, because it's not actually illegal to burn a dvd. i have new dvd's of old movies, as long as it's under 4.7GB, you dont HAVE to use shrink or decrypter.
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