Displaying Video in a Text Console?

Displaying Video in a Text Console?

[Hart Larry]

Hi All:  Just got a newer monitor which is working better in linux.  I 
downloaded some boxing from the 60s to show my Dad yesterday.  I play these 
.avis with mplayer.  Well, my Dad just saw numbers-and-letters, along with 
shadows of the Boxers.  I suppose the numbers are the progress which mplayer is 
sending to Speakup.
My question is, is their a way in a straight commandline console to watch one 
of these files, without starting x or booting in windows xp?
Thanks so much in advance
Hart

Re: Displaying Video in a Text Console?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hart Larry, le Mon 19 Jun 2006 08:48:48 -0700, a écrit :
> My question is, is their a way in a straight commandline console to watch 
> one of these files, without starting x or booting in windows xp?

with mplayer's svga driver (or better, the cvidix driver, if your video
board is supported) yes.

Samuel

Re: Displaying Video in a Text Console?

[Christopher Covington]

I use mplayer with the DirectFB driver for non-x video watching, but
sometimes it crashes while in its in control of my ttys and I have to
pull a hard reboot and hope for no filesystem corruption.

Re: Displaying Video in a Text Console?

[Samuel Thibault]

Christopher Covington, le Mon 19 Jun 2006 23:37:29 -0400, a écrit :
> I use mplayer with the DirectFB driver for non-x video watching, but
> sometimes it crashes while in its in control of my ttys and I have to
> pull a hard reboot and hope for no filesystem corruption.

If you were just playing a video, you shouldn't get any filesystem
corruption.

Samuel