On 22/04/2017 13:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 22/04/17 12:22, D.M. Procida wrote:
>> Would a Rapsberry Pi Zero with
>> a
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>> external
>> USB DVD drive function as an adequate DVD player?
>>
>> If so, it could replace a much larger DVD player, that doesn't even have
>> HDMI. Both Pi and DVD drive seem small and lightweight enough that they
>> could just be discretely mounted behind the television.
>>
>> I have no need for a full-blown Pi-driven media centre, but it would be
>> nice to be able to use it with a remote control - if not the one I
>> already have with the (Sony) TV, then the tiny little ones I have left
>> over from older Macintoshes.
>>
>> What do you recommend?
>>
>> Daniele
>>
> I think it should work, I've used USB2.0 drives for DVDs and they are
> fast enough to get the data off and I THINK the Pi with something like
> VLC is well fast enough to do a decent sized flicker free display.
>

Do you actually have VLC working on the Pi. I tried on a Pi 3 and it was
rubbish, stuttered on full screen.

LibreELEC, on the other hand, gave very good performance on the Pi 3.

I did ask a few weeks ago about this, on this group, but didn't get any
resolution apart from a suggestion that VLC/Raspbian were not using the
graphics chip properly.


> Looks like HDMI is the default sound output too, so that should all Just
> Work (TM).
>
>

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