mplayer dvd

[David Bruzos]

Hello Paul:
You would do: "mplayer dvd://1"
Where the //1 part is the dvd title you want to play.  So, if you want to 
play title number two you would type: mplayer dvd://2

You might need a symbolic link, /dev/dvd, pointing to /dev/cdrom or whatever 
your CD device happens to be...
Check out the mplayer man page, it is very helpful and includes all of the 
commands...
One thing though.  You are going to need a fast machine (over 600 MHZ) to 
play DVD's in frame buffer mode.  If your movie starts skipping and not 
playing properly, you can start an X console by running xinit and then 
running mplayer.  If your video hardware is set up properly you should be 
able to play DVD's smoothly with a 300 MHZ machine when using the XV driver.
Of course, if you don't want to play the video part of the DVD (audio only), 
then you should be fine with any hardware configuration...

David Bruzos


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Migliorelli (+1 7 2 0 7 3 2 2 3 1 1)" <paulmigs at migliorelli.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: mplayer dvd


> So to play dvd you would do which??  mplayer space and then /dev/cdrom??
> Or, hmmm.  Gues not since you wouldn't be mounting it.  I'm slow as always
> (grin)
>
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