Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Johan Bergström]

Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and
all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to
get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on
getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement
libraries. If you run debian, you can just run,

apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev

If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-)

Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X
libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the
compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies.

You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to the
files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to
save them.

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2

Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and install
them in the standard way, something like this,

tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
cd libdvdread-0.9.2
./configure
make
make install

Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they install
in /usr/local/lib.

Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2,

tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2

Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under
w32codec-0.60 into that dir.

Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that points
to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device
thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist,

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the
standard commands.

tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
cd MPlayer-20020303
./configure

Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these
lines, or something similar to it,

Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes
Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32)

And either one of these,

Checking for OSS Audio ... yes

Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x)

Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted and
under developement in mplayer.

If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual.

Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files
MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf into
a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your
homedir.

The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer
such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are
rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute and
pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad /
and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is for
pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more.

Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it,

vc=null
ao=oss

alternativly

ao=alsa9

If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we
dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio Output
driver.

Now you are ready.

To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer /path/to/file
and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command,

mplayer -dvd 1

Thats all. Hope you all get it working.

Bye,

Johan

Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Igor Gueths]

Hi. I read most of this in the mplayer docs available on the site. One question though. By the way, nice guide! Anyway, can sighted people see the video from the console? Or do you have to have x running before you can do that? I'm just asking because once I get my system up, I want to be able to watch divx with friends and stuff. I used to do this on the winblows box. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Johan Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:51 PM
Subject: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)


> Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and
> all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to
> get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on
> getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement
> libraries. If you run debian, you can just run,
> 
> apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev
> 
> If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-)
> 
> Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X
> libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the
> compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies.
> 
> You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to the
> files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to
> save them.
> 
> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> 
> Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and install
> them in the standard way, something like this,
> 
> tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> cd ..
> tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> cd libdvdread-0.9.2
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they install
> in /usr/local/lib.
> 
> Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2,
> 
> tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> 
> Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under
> w32codec-0.60 into that dir.
> 
> Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that points
> to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device
> thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist,
> 
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> 
> Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the
> standard commands.
> 
> tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> cd MPlayer-20020303
> ./configure
> 
> Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these
> lines, or something similar to it,
> 
> Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes
> Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32)
> 
> And either one of these,
> 
> Checking for OSS Audio ... yes
> 
> Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x)
> 
> Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted and
> under developement in mplayer.
> 
> If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual.
> 
> Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files
> MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf into
> a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your
> homedir.
> 
> The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer
> such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are
> rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute and
> pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad /
> and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is for
> pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more.
> 
> Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it,
> 
> vc=null
> ao=oss
> 
> alternativly
> 
> ao=alsa9
> 
> If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we
> dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio Output
> driver.
> 
> Now you are ready.
> 
> To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer /path/to/file
> and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command,
> 
> mplayer -dvd 1
> 
> Thats all. Hope you all get it working.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Johan
> 
> 
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Johan Bergström]

Short answer, No.

There is no way to render the graphics in the console that is needed to
watch movies. There probably are some 256 color movie program out there,
but thats not how you want to watch movies, if you can see. There is also
a aalib driver for mplayer which will play the movie in the console using
only ascii characters. But thats not how you want to see a movie either,
thats mostly for fun and showing off. To watch a movie using both a video
codec and audio you need to get X running, install sdl libraries,
recompile mplayer so that it supports SDL. (Or GGI or X11libs or some
other graphics lib) and run it using -vc sdl, or -vo sdl.

Johan

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi. I read most of this in the mplayer docs available on the site. One question though. By the way, nice guide! Anyway, can sighted people see the video from the console? Or do you have to have x running before you can do that? I'm just asking because once I get my system up, I want to be able to watch divx with friends and stuff. I used to do this on the winblows box.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Johan Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:51 PM
> Subject: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
>
>
> > Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and
> > all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to
> > get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on
> > getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement
> > libraries. If you run debian, you can just run,
> >
> > apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev
> >
> > If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-)
> >
> > Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X
> > libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the
> > compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies.
> >
> > You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to the
> > files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to
> > save them.
> >
> > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> >
> > Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and install
> > them in the standard way, something like this,
> >
> > tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> > cd ..
> > tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > cd libdvdread-0.9.2
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they install
> > in /usr/local/lib.
> >
> > Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2,
> >
> > tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> >
> > Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under
> > w32codec-0.60 into that dir.
> >
> > Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that points
> > to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device
> > thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist,
> >
> > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> >
> > Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the
> > standard commands.
> >
> > tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> > cd MPlayer-20020303
> > ./configure
> >
> > Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these
> > lines, or something similar to it,
> >
> > Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes
> > Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32)
> >
> > And either one of these,
> >
> > Checking for OSS Audio ... yes
> >
> > Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x)
> >
> > Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted and
> > under developement in mplayer.
> >
> > If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual.
> >
> > Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files
> > MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf into
> > a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your
> > homedir.
> >
> > The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer
> > such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are
> > rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute and
> > pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad /
> > and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is for
> > pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more.
> >
> > Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it,
> >
> > vc=null
> > ao=oss
> >
> > alternativly
> >
> > ao=alsa9
> >
> > If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we
> > dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio Output
> > driver.
> >
> > Now you are ready.
> >
> > To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer /path/to/file
> > and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command,
> >
> > mplayer -dvd 1
> >
> > Thats all. Hope you all get it working.
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Johan
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Alex Snow]

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)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Bergström" <johbe@linux.se>
To: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
Cc: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)


Short answer, No.

There is no way to render the graphics in the console that is needed to
watch movies. There probably are some 256 color movie program out there,
but thats not how you want to watch movies, if you can see. There is also
a aalib driver for mplayer which will play the movie in the console using
only ascii characters. But thats not how you want to see a movie either,
thats mostly for fun and showing off. To watch a movie using both a video
codec and audio you need to get X running, install sdl libraries,
recompile mplayer so that it supports SDL. (Or GGI or X11libs or some
other graphics lib) and run it using -vc sdl, or -vo sdl.

Johan

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi. I read most of this in the mplayer docs available on the site. One
question though. By the way, nice guide! Anyway, can sighted people see the
video from the console? Or do you have to have x running before you can do
that? I'm just asking because once I get my system up, I want to be able to
watch divx with friends and stuff. I used to do this on the winblows box.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Johan Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:51 PM
> Subject: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
>
>
> > Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and
> > all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to
> > get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on
> > getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement
> > libraries. If you run debian, you can just run,
> >
> > apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev
> >
> > If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-)
> >
> > Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X
> > libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the
> > compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies.
> >
> > You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to
the
> > files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to
> > save them.
> >
> > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> >
> > Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and
install
> > them in the standard way, something like this,
> >
> > tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> > cd ..
> > tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > cd libdvdread-0.9.2
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they
install
> > in /usr/local/lib.
> >
> > Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2,
> >
> > tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> >
> > Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under
> > w32codec-0.60 into that dir.
> >
> > Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that
points
> > to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device
> > thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist,
> >
> > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> >
> > Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the
> > standard commands.
> >
> > tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> > cd MPlayer-20020303
> > ./configure
> >
> > Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these
> > lines, or something similar to it,
> >
> > Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes
> > Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32)
> >
> > And either one of these,
> >
> > Checking for OSS Audio ... yes
> >
> > Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x)
> >
> > Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted
and
> > under developement in mplayer.
> >
> > If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual.
> >
> > Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files
> > MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf
into
> > a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your
> > homedir.
> >
> > The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer
> > such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are
> > rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute
and
> > pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad /
> > and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is
for
> > pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more.
> >
> > Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it,
> >
> > vc=null
> > ao=oss
> >
> > alternativly
> >
> > ao=alsa9
> >
> > If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we
> > dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio
Output
> > driver.
> >
> > Now you are ready.
> >
> > To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer
/path/to/file
> > and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command,
> >
> > mplayer -dvd 1
> >
> > Thats all. Hope you all get it working.
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Johan
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Johan Bergström]

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)

Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Alex. Well one thing you could do is use Edonkey to download the divx on the linux box, then use ftp or nfs to transfer it to the winblows box to watch it. Well at least you can use Linux for something movie-related smile. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alex Snow <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)


> 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)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johan Bergström" <johbe@linux.se>
> To: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
> 
> 
> Short answer, No.
> 
> There is no way to render the graphics in the console that is needed to
> watch movies. There probably are some 256 color movie program out there,
> but thats not how you want to watch movies, if you can see. There is also
> a aalib driver for mplayer which will play the movie in the console using
> only ascii characters. But thats not how you want to see a movie either,
> thats mostly for fun and showing off. To watch a movie using both a video
> codec and audio you need to get X running, install sdl libraries,
> recompile mplayer so that it supports SDL. (Or GGI or X11libs or some
> other graphics lib) and run it using -vc sdl, or -vo sdl.
> 
> Johan
> 
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi. I read most of this in the mplayer docs available on the site. One
> question though. By the way, nice guide! Anyway, can sighted people see the
> video from the console? Or do you have to have x running before you can do
> that? I'm just asking because once I get my system up, I want to be able to
> watch divx with friends and stuff. I used to do this on the winblows box.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Johan Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:51 PM
> > Subject: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
> >
> >
> > > Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and
> > > all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to
> > > get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on
> > > getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement
> > > libraries. If you run debian, you can just run,
> > >
> > > apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev
> > >
> > > If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-)
> > >
> > > Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X
> > > libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the
> > > compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies.
> > >
> > > You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to
> the
> > > files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to
> > > save them.
> > >
> > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> > > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and
> install
> > > them in the standard way, something like this,
> > >
> > > tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > > cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > make install
> > > cd ..
> > > tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > > cd libdvdread-0.9.2
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > make install
> > >
> > > Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they
> install
> > > in /usr/local/lib.
> > >
> > > Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2,
> > >
> > > tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under
> > > w32codec-0.60 into that dir.
> > >
> > > Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that
> points
> > > to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device
> > > thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist,
> > >
> > > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> > >
> > > Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the
> > > standard commands.
> > >
> > > tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> > > cd MPlayer-20020303
> > > ./configure
> > >
> > > Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these
> > > lines, or something similar to it,
> > >
> > > Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes
> > > Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32)
> > >
> > > And either one of these,
> > >
> > > Checking for OSS Audio ... yes
> > >
> > > Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x)
> > >
> > > Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted
> and
> > > under developement in mplayer.
> > >
> > > If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual.
> > >
> > > Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files
> > > MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf
> into
> > > a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your
> > > homedir.
> > >
> > > The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer
> > > such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are
> > > rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute
> and
> > > pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad /
> > > and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is
> for
> > > pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more.
> > >
> > > Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it,
> > >
> > > vc=null
> > > ao=oss
> > >
> > > alternativly
> > >
> > > ao=alsa9
> > >
> > > If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we
> > > dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio
> Output
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > Now you are ready.
> > >
> > > To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer
> /path/to/file
> > > and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command,
> > >
> > > mplayer -dvd 1
> > >
> > > Thats all. Hope you all get it working.
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > >
> > > Johan
> > >
> > >
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Igor Gueths]

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 Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
To: <speakup@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)
> 
> 
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Alex Snow]

Any idea when a workable solution to X is comming?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
To: <speakup@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 Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
To: <speakup@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)
>
>
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Victor Tsaran]

How about using Virtual Frame Buffer program? I think the name is
Xfree86-xbf...
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:04 AM
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 Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
> To: <speakup@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)
> >
> >
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Deedra Waters]

Well, you can't see the picture, but can have the sound, which I think is
what most people on this list probably want anyway.


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)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johan Bergström" <johbe@linux.se>
> To: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
> 
> 
> Short answer, No.
> 
> There is no way to render the graphics in the console that is needed to
> watch movies. There probably are some 256 color movie program out there,
> but thats not how you want to watch movies, if you can see. There is also
> a aalib driver for mplayer which will play the movie in the console using
> only ascii characters. But thats not how you want to see a movie either,
> thats mostly for fun and showing off. To watch a movie using both a video
> codec and audio you need to get X running, install sdl libraries,
> recompile mplayer so that it supports SDL. (Or GGI or X11libs or some
> other graphics lib) and run it using -vc sdl, or -vo sdl.
> 
> Johan
> 
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi. I read most of this in the mplayer docs available on the site. One
> question though. By the way, nice guide! Anyway, can sighted people see the
> video from the console? Or do you have to have x running before you can do
> that? I'm just asking because once I get my system up, I want to be able to
> watch divx with friends and stuff. I used to do this on the winblows box.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Johan Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:51 PM
> > Subject: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)
> >
> >
> > > Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and
> > > all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to
> > > get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on
> > > getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement
> > > libraries. If you run debian, you can just run,
> > >
> > > apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev
> > >
> > > If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-)
> > >
> > > Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X
> > > libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the
> > > compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies.
> > >
> > > You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to
> the
> > > files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to
> > > save them.
> > >
> > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> > > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and
> install
> > > them in the standard way, something like this,
> > >
> > > tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> > > cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > make install
> > > cd ..
> > > tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> > > cd libdvdread-0.9.2
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > make install
> > >
> > > Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they
> install
> > > in /usr/local/lib.
> > >
> > > Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2,
> > >
> > > tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under
> > > w32codec-0.60 into that dir.
> > >
> > > Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that
> points
> > > to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device
> > > thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist,
> > >
> > > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> > >
> > > Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the
> > > standard commands.
> > >
> > > tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2
> > > cd MPlayer-20020303
> > > ./configure
> > >
> > > Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these
> > > lines, or something similar to it,
> > >
> > > Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes
> > > Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32)
> > >
> > > And either one of these,
> > >
> > > Checking for OSS Audio ... yes
> > >
> > > Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x)
> > >
> > > Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted
> and
> > > under developement in mplayer.
> > >
> > > If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual.
> > >
> > > Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files
> > > MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf
> into
> > > a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your
> > > homedir.
> > >
> > > The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer
> > > such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are
> > > rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute
> and
> > > pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad /
> > > and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is
> for
> > > pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more.
> > >
> > > Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it,
> > >
> > > vc=null
> > > ao=oss
> > >
> > > alternativly
> > >
> > > ao=alsa9
> > >
> > > If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we
> > > dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio
> Output
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > Now you are ready.
> > >
> > > To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer
> /path/to/file
> > > and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command,
> > >
> > > mplayer -dvd 1
> > >
> > > Thats all. Hope you all get it working.
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > >
> > > Johan
> > >
> > >
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Johan Bergström]

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?

Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Thomas Ward]

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@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@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@yahoo.com>
> To: <speakup@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 Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
> To: <speakup@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)
> >
> >
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Thomas Ward]

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 Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
To: <speakup@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?
>
>
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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Johan Bergström]

Right didnt think of that, I have never used it myself, but if you have a
graphics card that is supported in the kernel framebuffer device
configuration. You can enable it and should be able to make mplayer
play dvds and divx'es and whatever in the console. After you recompile
mplayer to support it ofcourse. That solves the problem about

Johan.


On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> How about using Virtual Frame Buffer program? I think the name is
> Xfree86-xbf...
> Vic
>

Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Johan -

Your guidelines for installing and configuring mplayer that you
posted in March were extremely helpful.

I got the files yesterday and believe that I have done everything
okay. I found a    downloadable .swf file and found that mplayer
played it fine.

However - my computer has no DVD drive, and I have only a 56K
modem dialup connection. I wonder if there are any sources I can
tap with such limitations.

I looked through the documentation files and man pages for
information about mime types for movie streams but could not find
any. Can you suggest what mime types and filename suffixes ought
to be added to the .mimetypes file?

Thanks - Chuck


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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Toby Fisher]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> However - my computer has no DVD drive, and I have only a 56K
> modem dialup connection. I wonder if there are any sources I can
> tap with such limitations.

Well, you could try looking on the Gnutella network.  There is a very
accessible console client called gnut.  go to:
http://www.gnutelliums.com
for all info about gnutella.

> I looked through the documentation files and man pages for
> information about mime types for movie streams but could not find
> any. Can you suggest what mime types and filename suffixes ought
> to be added to the .mimetypes file?

Well, although I haven't installed mplayer yet, it would appear thatt .asx
files can be played with mplayer.  There's already one entry in mime.types
for this, but it is not the only one.  You can also add:

application/x-ms-asf	asx

These are for windows Media Player streams.

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Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation)

[Johan Bergström]

I'm glad someone found it useful. And I'm sorry to say that I dont play
streaming audio/video with mplayer. I use it for mpeg/avi/wmv/asf files
and DVD playback. I know that mplayer does support windows media format,
at least the older one, and the same thing with real media, they support
the older codec. So It should be possible to play those kinds of
video/audio streams.

I dont use a .mimetypes file so I cant help you there.

Johan

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Johan -
>
> Your guidelines for installing and configuring mplayer that you
> posted in March were extremely helpful.
>
> I got the files yesterday and believe that I have done everything
> okay. I found a    downloadable .swf file and found that mplayer
> played it fine.
>
> However - my computer has no DVD drive, and I have only a 56K
> modem dialup connection. I wonder if there are any sources I can
> tap with such limitations.
>
> I looked through the documentation files and man pages for
> information about mime types for movie streams but could not find
> any. Can you suggest what mime types and filename suffixes ought
> to be added to the .mimetypes file?
>
> Thanks - Chuck
>
>
> --
> Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
> The Moon is Waning Gibbous (99% of Full)
>

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