dxr3Player is a Linux DVD player with command-line functionality designed for use with DXR3 MPEG-2 decoder boards, offering users a lightweight solution for their video playback needs.
dxr3Player is compatible with the Simple DirectMedia Layer library, allowing you to play DVDs on any X Window System display. As a result, you can get the most out of your hardware without having to use any complicated software.
The player relies on several other essential pieces of software to function. Required software includes the dxr3 (em8300) drivers, the libmpdvdkit library, the liba52 library, the LIRC library, the MAD library, the Simple DirectMedia Layer library, and the libmpeg2 library. The incorporation of these libraries allows dxr3Player to provide excellent audio and video quality and allows decoding of MPEG video streams when not using the DXR3 board or the Unichrome chipset.
dxr3Player offers several key features, including DVD menus, navigation options, fast forward and backward playback, pausing, subtitles, camera angle changes, infrared remote control support, playback of AC3, Linear PCM, and MPEG audio streams, digital audio output, joystick as input device, and DVD dumping. Despite its many benefits, the software's limitations include only being able to play 48 kHz, 16-bit stereo Linear PCM streams.
Updates to the software include features like button highlights that can be stretched for widescreen monitors, subtitles that can be shrunk to fit into the middle of the frame, support for 24-bit LPCM audio, and more flexibility in handling poorly mastered DVDs. Additionally, several bugs that were fixed in this release include toggling between overlay/normal output while waiting for a DVD, the display of buttons with no valid button numbers, and various compilation and documentation fixes.
Overall, dxr3Player is an excellent choice for Linux and DXR3 users. It delivers quality playback, reliability, and flexibility, making it a worthwhile addition to any software library.
Version 0.11: N/A