Ogle

Ogle is an open source DVD player that supports DVD menus.

It has many useful features like bookmarks, time skipping, multichannel audio, and crop & zoom video.

Ogle supports playing CSS encrypted DVDs.

It also plays DVDs with or without using a graphical user interface.

Ogle 0.9.2-5.1

Price Free to download Size 0.4MB License GNU GPL v2 Developer Björn Englund, Håkan Hjort, Vilhelm Bergman, Martin Norbäck, Björn Augustsson Website dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd System Requirements libdvdread libdvdcss (for encrpyted DVDs) libjpeg libxml2 libmad liba52 xvattr Support Sites: Manual, Mailing Lists Selected Reviews: Raiden's Realm, Linux Journal

Features include:

• Supports DVD menus and navigation
  
• Reads from mounted, unmounted DVDs and hard drive
  
• Reads encrypted and unencrypted DVDs using libdvdread/libdvdcss
  
• A new MPEG2 decoder with MMX, Altivec and SUN Solaris mediaLib acceleration
  
• Normal X11 and XFree86 Xvideo display support with subpicture overlay
  
• Accelerated display on Sun FFB2+ cards
  
• Audio and subpicture selection
  
• Handles advanced subpicture commands such as fade/scroll and wipe
  
• Detects and uses correct aspect for movie and menus
  
• Possible to play AC3, DTS, MPEG, LPCM via S/PDIF
  
• Hardware yuv2rgb on Sun FFB2+ (Creator3D)
  
• Fullscreen mode
  
• Screenshots with and without subpicture overlay
  
• Title/chapter search
  
• Audio formats supported: AC-3, MPEG, LPCM (DTS only via SP/DIF)

Last Updated Sunday, September 21 2008 @ 07:28 AM EDT