Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

Thu Mar 7 20:51:51 EST 2002

Well, you can't see the picture, but can have the sound, which I think is
what most people on this list probably want anyway.

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)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johan Bergström" <johbe at linux.se>
> To: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
> 
> 
> Short answer, No.
> 
> There is no way to render the graphics in the console that is needed to
> watch movies. There probably are some 256 color movie program out there,
> but thats not how you want to watch movies, if you can see. There is also
> a aalib driver for mplayer which will play the movie in the console using
> only ascii characters. But thats not how you want to see a movie either,
> thats mostly for fun and showing off. To watch a movie using both a video
> codec and audio you need to get X running, install sdl libraries,
> recompile mplayer so that it supports SDL. (Or GGI or X11libs or some
> other graphics lib) and run it using -vc sdl, or -vo sdl.
> 
> Johan
> 
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi. I read most of this in the mplayer docs available on the site. One
> question though. By the way, nice guide! Anyway, can sighted people see the
> video from the console? Or do you have to have x running before you can do
> that? I'm just asking because once I get my system up, I want to be able to
> watch divx with friends and stuff. I used to do this on the winblows box.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Johan Bergström <johbe at linux.se>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:51 PM
> > Subject: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
> >
> >
> > > Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and
> > > all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to
> > > get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on
> > > getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement
> > > libraries. If you run debian, you can just run,
> > >
> > > apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev
> > >
> > > If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-)
> > >
> > > Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X
> > > libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the
> > > compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies.
> > >
> > > You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to
> the
> > > files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to
> > > save them.
> > >
> > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> > > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and
> install
> > > them in the standard way, something like this,
> > >
> > > tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > > cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > make install
> > > cd ..
> > > tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > > cd libdvdread-0.9.2
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > make install
> > >
> > > Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they
> install
> > > in /usr/local/lib.
> > >
> > > Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2,
> > >
> > > tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under
> > > w32codec-0.60 into that dir.
> > >
> > > Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that
> points
> > > to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device
> > > thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist,
> > >
> > > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> > >
> > > Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the
> > > standard commands.
> > >
> > > tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> > > cd MPlayer-20020303
> > > ./configure
> > >
> > > Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these
> > > lines, or something similar to it,
> > >
> > > Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes
> > > Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32)
> > >
> > > And either one of these,
> > >
> > > Checking for OSS Audio ... yes
> > >
> > > Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x)
> > >
> > > Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted
> and
> > > under developement in mplayer.
> > >
> > > If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual.
> > >
> > > Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files
> > > MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf
> into
> > > a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your
> > > homedir.
> > >
> > > The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer
> > > such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are
> > > rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute
> and
> > > pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad /
> > > and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is
> for
> > > pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more.
> > >
> > > Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it,
> > >
> > > vc=null
> > > ao=oss
> > >
> > > alternativly
> > >
> > > ao=alsa9
> > >
> > > If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we
> > > dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio
> Output
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > Now you are ready.
> > >
> > > To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer
> /path/to/file
> > > and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command,
> > >
> > > mplayer -dvd 1
> > >
> > > Thats all. Hope you all get it working.
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > >
> > > Johan
> > >
> > >
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