Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Alex. In answer to your question sometime later this year. Gnopernicus
is still in the low level phase.


----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Snow <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)


> Any idea when a workable solution to X is comming?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at yahoo.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
>
>
> Hi Johan. Sorry to post more than one message on the same subject. But
just
> to clarify, I figured that I could have the X libs and stuff installed
with
> the video codec, then start the movie playing from the console and mplayer
> could just access the video codec? So in other words, to start the movie
> playing with audio and video without sighted assistance? Because then I
> would have to try to help them through X, and naturally I have no clue
what
> the layout of the screen is! Smile.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Johan Bergström <johbe at linux.se>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
>
>
> > 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)
> >
> >
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