Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, I think what some of the members like myself were expecting was a full
featured dvd player. While sound is nice us for us blind folks, but what if
you want to invite friends over for a movie, cards, etc, or want to watch a
movie together with family. Then, the sound only option doesn't work as
well.
I guess I'll have to build mplayer for x. That way I get vidio as well.



----- Original Message -----
From: Johan Bergström <johbe at linux.se>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)


> I dont understand what you want. Running X with a speech program so that
> you run mplayer with a visual picture or what?
>
> mplayer can handle ALL possible codecs you can think of, and DVDs, if you
> just install them and recompile mplayer for some of them. It MUST have X
> to run with a good quality visual picture..
>
> If you are happy with sound only it will play ALL video files you can
> think of, AND DVDs with sound only, in the console. You dont need X for
> sound only.
>
> mplayer is not developed for visually impared people, its a general
> commandline movieplayer in linux, it has a GUI aswell, but its optional,
> its even better than windows media player in my humble opinion. And it
> has the feature of disabeling the visual output using the null driver.
> Which means, you can run it in console and get a sound only version,
> which I thought was what you guys wanted.
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > Any idea when a workable solution to X is comming?
>
>
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