Cool DVD links …
I finally decided that I would see about playing DVDs on my Dell Laptop. Of course, I had to go and do some research about the status of DVDs, ripping, encoding, etc. I have to say that the DVD/CD drive power draw on the Dell is what makes me want to play movies off of my hard disk. I’ve got dual 18GB drives in the Dell for DV Video editing, so storage is not a problem. (Plus, I’m not going to have a permanent DVD drive on my wearable!) In looking around, I found two very cool sites:

VideoLAN is a project of students from the École Centrale Paris. They are developing some very cool Open Source tools …

InfoMatrix, or InMatrix, has a lot of information and tools for examining your DVD drive, setting Region Codes, and even new firmware that will add new functionality to your DVD drive!