Hi, Alex. In answer to your question sometime later this year. Gnopernicus is still in the low level phase. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Snow <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:17 PM Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation) > Any idea when a workable solution to X is comming? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at yahoo.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:04 PM > Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation) > > > Hi Johan. Sorry to post more than one message on the same subject. But just > to clarify, I figured that I could have the X libs and stuff installed with > the video codec, then start the movie playing from the console and mplayer > could just access the video codec? So in other words, to start the movie > playing with audio and video without sighted assistance? Because then I > would have to try to help them through X, and naturally I have no clue what > the layout of the screen is! Smile. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Johan Bergstr?m <johbe at linux.se> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:38 PM > Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation) > > > > Read the first email in this thread, I just explained how to watch (well > > actually only play the sound of) DVD's in the console. What Igor asked > > about was if he could use mplayer to run DVDs visually in the console. > > Thats not possible. You need X for that. > > > > Johan > > > > 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) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
