Hi, I think what some of the members like myself were expecting was a full featured dvd player. While sound is nice us for us blind folks, but what if you want to invite friends over for a movie, cards, etc, or want to watch a movie together with family. Then, the sound only option doesn't work as well. I guess I'll have to build mplayer for x. That way I get vidio as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: Johan Bergstr?m <johbe@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 5:10 AM Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation) > I dont understand what you want. Running X with a speech program so that > you run mplayer with a visual picture or what? > > mplayer can handle ALL possible codecs you can think of, and DVDs, if you > just install them and recompile mplayer for some of them. It MUST have X > to run with a good quality visual picture.. > > If you are happy with sound only it will play ALL video files you can > think of, AND DVDs with sound only, in the console. You dont need X for > sound only. > > mplayer is not developed for visually impared people, its a general > commandline movieplayer in linux, it has a GUI aswell, but its optional, > its even better than windows media player in my humble opinion. And it > has the feature of disabeling the visual output using the null driver. > Which means, you can run it in console and get a sound only version, > which I thought was what you guys wanted. > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > > > Any idea when a workable solution to X is comming? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
