mplayer dvd

[Sean McMahon]

Can you play a dvd if you're using svgatextmode and don't have a frame buffer?
Can mplayer handle dvds with menus?  My questions assume you are strictly using
mplayer from the command line.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: mplayer dvd


> 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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