Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Johan Bergström]

I'm glad someone found it useful. And I'm sorry to say that I dont play
streaming audio/video with mplayer. I use it for mpeg/avi/wmv/asf files
and DVD playback. I know that mplayer does support windows media format,
at least the older one, and the same thing with real media, they support
the older codec. So It should be possible to play those kinds of
video/audio streams.

I dont use a .mimetypes file so I cant help you there.

Johan

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Johan -
>
> Your guidelines for installing and configuring mplayer that you
> posted in March were extremely helpful.
>
> I got the files yesterday and believe that I have done everything
> okay. I found a    downloadable .swf file and found that mplayer
> played it fine.
>
> However - my computer has no DVD drive, and I have only a 56K
> modem dialup connection. I wonder if there are any sources I can
> tap with such limitations.
>
> I looked through the documentation files and man pages for
> information about mime types for movie streams but could not find
> any. Can you suggest what mime types and filename suffixes ought
> to be added to the .mimetypes file?
>
> Thanks - Chuck
>
>
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