Well, you can't see the picture, but can have the sound, which I think is what most people on this list probably want anyway. 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) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Johan Bergstr?m" <johbe at linux.se> > To: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at yahoo.com> > Cc: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:44 AM > Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation) > > > Short answer, No. > > There is no way to render the graphics in the console that is needed to > watch movies. There probably are some 256 color movie program out there, > but thats not how you want to watch movies, if you can see. There is also > a aalib driver for mplayer which will play the movie in the console using > only ascii characters. But thats not how you want to see a movie either, > thats mostly for fun and showing off. To watch a movie using both a video > codec and audio you need to get X running, install sdl libraries, > recompile mplayer so that it supports SDL. (Or GGI or X11libs or some > other graphics lib) and run it using -vc sdl, or -vo sdl. > > Johan > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi. I read most of this in the mplayer docs available on the site. One > question though. By the way, nice guide! Anyway, can sighted people see the > video from the console? Or do you have to have x running before you can do > that? I'm just asking because once I get my system up, I want to be able to > watch divx with friends and stuff. I used to do this on the winblows box. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Johan Bergstr?m <johbe at linux.se> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:51 PM > > Subject: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation) > > > > > > > Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and > > > all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to > > > get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on > > > getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement > > > libraries. If you run debian, you can just run, > > > > > > apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev > > > > > > If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-) > > > > > > Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X > > > libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the > > > compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies. > > > > > > You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to > the > > > files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to > > > save them. > > > > > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz > > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz > > > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2 > > > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2 > > > > > > Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and > install > > > them in the standard way, something like this, > > > > > > tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz > > > cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3 > > > ./configure > > > make > > > make install > > > cd .. > > > tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz > > > cd libdvdread-0.9.2 > > > ./configure > > > make > > > make install > > > > > > Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they > install > > > in /usr/local/lib. > > > > > > Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2, > > > > > > tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2 > > > > > > Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under > > > w32codec-0.60 into that dir. > > > > > > Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that > points > > > to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device > > > thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist, > > > > > > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd > > > > > > Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the > > > standard commands. > > > > > > tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2 > > > cd MPlayer-20020303 > > > ./configure > > > > > > Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these > > > lines, or something similar to it, > > > > > > Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes > > > Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32) > > > > > > And either one of these, > > > > > > Checking for OSS Audio ... yes > > > > > > Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x) > > > > > > Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted > and > > > under developement in mplayer. > > > > > > If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual. > > > > > > Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files > > > MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf > into > > > a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your > > > homedir. > > > > > > The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer > > > such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are > > > rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute > and > > > pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad / > > > and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is > for > > > pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more. > > > > > > Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it, > > > > > > vc=null > > > ao=oss > > > > > > alternativly > > > > > > ao=alsa9 > > > > > > If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we > > > dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio > Output > > > driver. > > > > > > Now you are ready. > > > > > > To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer > /path/to/file > > > and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command, > > > > > > mplayer -dvd 1 > > > > > > Thats all. Hope you all get it working. > > > > > > Bye, > > > > > > Johan > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
