Hi, Jim. Typically, when I am watching something such as a dvd I launch mplayer from with in gnome-terminal. Naturally, this will require something such as gnopernicus for speech, or you can use emacspeak from with in gnome-terminal to control mplayer. In short the best way to watch dvd's with friends is from in x, and you need to get it accessible in some way such as emacspeak, yasr, or gnopernicus. Here is what I do. startx, do alt+f2 for run, type gnome-terminal, press enter, and load the yasr screen reader which gives access to gnome-terminal. Then, I load mplayer. These instructions of course assumes you are using the gnome desktop and not KDE. ----- Original Message ----- From: Vortek, Eater of Souls! <vortek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: mplayer question > Hello all, > I'm trying to get mplayer working, as in actually displaying video. > although I direct the video to null when I'm watching videos, it'd be > nice to be able to display the video when I have sighted friends over. > mplayer itself works fine, I'm having trouble with the x server. > I run the startx program, and get dumped to a graphics console, when I > switch back to my text console I get a message something like the > following: > AUDIT: Mon Aug 4 17:55:54 2003: 8133 X: Client 5 rejected from local > host > > then when I try and start mplayer, it, of course, says it couldn't open > the x11 display. > If anyone could help me out with this, I'd appriciate it. > Thanks. > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
