o t: playing dvd??

o t: playing dvd??

[Paul Migliorelli (+1 7 2 0 7 3 2 2 3 1 1)]

Hi all.  In our new homebox we have a dvd.  Just wondering what to use to 
play them from the fc3 shell.  Also, I hear that things like d v s and 
whatever would be bundled in releases of films and whatever.  I gather one 
could then choose the description if they wanted it or watch the film by 
default without??  Can one do that with a software player??  I gather 
there would be something to play it with like cdp for audio??  Thanks 
much.

Re: o t: playing dvd??

[David Bruzos]

Hi Paul:
For DVD playback you want to use MPlayer for sure.
MPlayer is an incredible media player and it can playback any media format you throw at it.  Also, it has very nice 
keyboard commands like space-bar for play, left-errow and right-arrow for fw and rw etc.  It is one of the most blind 
friendly and user friendly program out there.
It also plays VCD, SVCD, OGG, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WMV, Real, QuickTime, and many many more.

You can get great MPlayer RPMS from http://www.freshrpms.net.  They have a good "yum" repo for FC3.  If you configure 
your yum.conf file properly, you will be able to do: "yum install mplayer" and it will automaticly get it and its 
dependencies from the net.  However, I always compile my MPlayer, because it is much much faster if you compile it your 
self.

David B.

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:00:06PM -0700, Paul Migliorelli (+1 7 2 0 7 3 2 2 3 1 1) wrote:
> Hi all.  In our new homebox we have a dvd.  Just wondering what to use to 
> play them from the fc3 shell.  Also, I hear that things like d v s and 
> whatever would be bundled in releases of films and whatever.  I gather one 
> could then choose the description if they wanted it or watch the film by 
> default without??  Can one do that with a software player??  I gather 
> there would be something to play it with like cdp for audio??  Thanks 
> much.
> 
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Re: o t: playing dvd??

[Hart Larry]

Well, David, also mplayer will play .vob files.  Is their a way I can get that 
program to handle wild-cards?  I would have thought I could play .wax  but I 
cannot find any player for .wax
Hart

Re: o t: playing dvd??

[hank]

real audio files?
can it play streaming files? if so where do you get real audio plugin?
last time I used this thingy it didn't support real audio
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Subject: Re: o t: playing dvd??


> Hi Paul:
> For DVD playback you want to use MPlayer for sure.
> MPlayer is an incredible media player and it can playback any media format
you throw at it.  Also, it has very nice
> keyboard commands like space-bar for play, left-errow and right-arrow for
fw and rw etc.  It is one of the most blind
> friendly and user friendly program out there.
> It also plays VCD, SVCD, OGG, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WMV, Real, QuickTime, and
many many more.
>
> You can get great MPlayer RPMS from http://www.freshrpms.net.  They have a
good "yum" repo for FC3.  If you configure
> your yum.conf file properly, you will be able to do: "yum install mplayer"
and it will automaticly get it and its
> dependencies from the net.  However, I always compile my MPlayer, because
it is much much faster if you compile it your
> self.
>
> David B.
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:00:06PM -0700, Paul Migliorelli (+1 7 2 0 7 3 2
2 3 1 1) wrote:
> > Hi all.  In our new homebox we have a dvd.  Just wondering what to use
to
> > play them from the fc3 shell.  Also, I hear that things like d v s and
> > whatever would be bundled in releases of films and whatever.  I gather
one
> > could then choose the description if they wanted it or watch the film by
> > default without??  Can one do that with a software player??  I gather
> > there would be something to play it with like cdp for audio??  Thanks
> > much.
> >
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Re: o t: playing dvd??

[hank]

isn't .wax like .asx
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> Well, David, also mplayer will play .vob files.  Is their a way I can get
that
> program to handle wild-cards?  I would have thought I could play .wax  but
I
> cannot find any player for .wax
> Hart
>
>
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Re: o t: playing dvd??

[Steve Holmes]

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Is there a way to "simplify" the display in mplayer? What I refer to
is all the scrolling messages about which codek was used and format
detection and all that stuff.  Interesting while checking and
debugging but I would be more interested in easily finding the file's
tag information like it appears with zinf when using the -ncurses
option.  Other than that, it is an excellent player.  Another bit of
irony, I guess through library upgrades and such, my ability to play
.ogg files is completely broken and I can't even use ogg123 but
mplayer still steps right up there and plays them fine.  Guess I need
to recompile my other Ogg stuff:).

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Re: o t: playing dvd??

[David Bruzos]

Hi:
To play the latest Real audio files you have to install the win32 .dll real 
codecs.  I think that you can also use the native Linux codecs from the 
official Real Player 10 for Linux.
You have to look at your configuration options when you compile MPlayer and 
see how to enable Real support.
I think that MPlayer also has Real media support built-in, but only for the 
older format versions.
In my system, my MPlayer plays all of the Real Media files I have, but they 
are not the latest Real formats.
If you want better Real support you might want to use the official Real 
Player 10 from Real Networks.  I believe there is an alternative text-based 
frontend for it, but I have never used it.

David B.
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Subject: Re: o t: playing dvd??


> real audio files?
> can it play streaming files? if so where do you get real audio plugin?
> last time I used this thingy it didn't support real audio
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> From: "David Bruzos" <david@bruzos.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:41 PM
> Subject: Re: o t: playing dvd??
>
>
>> Hi Paul:
>> For DVD playback you want to use MPlayer for sure.
>> MPlayer is an incredible media player and it can playback any media 
>> format
> you throw at it.  Also, it has very nice
>> keyboard commands like space-bar for play, left-errow and right-arrow for
> fw and rw etc.  It is one of the most blind
>> friendly and user friendly program out there.
>> It also plays VCD, SVCD, OGG, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WMV, Real, QuickTime, and
> many many more.
>>
>> You can get great MPlayer RPMS from http://www.freshrpms.net.  They have 
>> a
> good "yum" repo for FC3.  If you configure
>> your yum.conf file properly, you will be able to do: "yum install 
>> mplayer"
> and it will automaticly get it and its
>> dependencies from the net.  However, I always compile my MPlayer, because
> it is much much faster if you compile it your
>> self.
>>
>> David B.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:00:06PM -0700, Paul Migliorelli (+1 7 2 0 7 3 
>> 2
> 2 3 1 1) wrote:
>> > Hi all.  In our new homebox we have a dvd.  Just wondering what to use
> to
>> > play them from the fc3 shell.  Also, I hear that things like d v s and
>> > whatever would be bundled in releases of films and whatever.  I gather
> one
>> > could then choose the description if they wanted it or watch the film 
>> > by
>> > default without??  Can one do that with a software player??  I gather
>> > there would be something to play it with like cdp for audio??  Thanks
>> > much.
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Speakup mailing list
>> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: o t: playing dvd??

[David Bruzos]

Hi again:
You can use the "-quiet" flag to make MPlayer print less info to the terminal.  However, you will still get some 
messages you might not want.  To make it not print anything you can redirect all of the MPlayer output to /dev/null.  If 
you want to eliminate the error messages do: # mplayer -quiet file.ogg 2>/dev/null

Hope this helps!

David B.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:46:25AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Is there a way to "simplify" the display in mplayer? What I refer to
> is all the scrolling messages about which codek was used and format
> detection and all that stuff.  Interesting while checking and
> debugging but I would be more interested in easily finding the file's
> tag information like it appears with zinf when using the -ncurses
> option.  Other than that, it is an excellent player.  Another bit of
> irony, I guess through library upgrades and such, my ability to play
> .ogg files is completely broken and I can't even use ogg123 but
> mplayer still steps right up there and plays them fine.  Guess I need
> to recompile my other Ogg stuff:).
> 
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Re: o t: playing dvd??

[Paul Migliorelli (+1 7 2 0 7 3 2 2 3 1 1)]

Very good.  Will have to try mplayer when dvd arrives.  Haven't had much 
luck with mplayer playing real though.  Oh well.  i do like it for all 
those mentioned things.