mplayer dvd

[David Bruzos]

Hello there:
I don't think you will be able to play DVD video or any other type of video without a frame buffer.  As far as I know 
the text console is text only.  However, you might be able to play the audio from the DVD without FB support.
Yes, MPlayer handles DVD menus just fine.  In the console however, you have to specify the title and language you want 
on the command line.  So the command:
# mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -slang es
would tell mplayer to play the title number 1 with the English language audio and the Spanish subtitles.

dvd://1 = title number 1 (could be 2, 3, or whatever).
-alang = what language for the audio. E.G. en, es, de, etc.
-slang = what subtitle...

David B.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:10:36AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> 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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