DVD->Mac->IEE1394->sony converter->TV, will vlc do this?

[Florian G. Pflug]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:41:55PM -0800, John R. Galloway, jr. wrote:
> Folks,
>   I would love to be able to play DVD's on a Mac G4 Cube running MacOS 10.1 
>   and
> have the output (digital video, i.e. uncompressed MPEG) sent over 
> Firewire to a Sony
> box that converts to/from analog and digital video.  I can do it with iMovie
> just fine, but need a DVD player that can select the video output 
> deivce other than
> just the screen (iMovie will not read DVDs).  So can vlc do so?

Not at the moment. But since vlc uses QuickTime for video output, adding
this shouldn't be too difficult. I think one would only need to change the
code which creates an DecompressionSequence to open the firewire channel
instead of a QuickDraw view.

greetings, phlo