Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Johan Bergström]

Read the first email in this thread, I just explained how to watch (well
actually only play the sound of) DVD's in the console. What Igor asked
about was if he could use mplayer to run DVDs visually in the console.
Thats not possible. You need X for that.

Johan

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote:

> That would be funny watching movies in ascii only!
> DVDs ar mainly for winblows and mac systems.  Until we can use X there isn't
> any really way to watch DVDs from the console (frown)