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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
