From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rhombus.bright.net ([205.212.123.75]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16jg3v-0003Jf-00 for ; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 07:34:59 -0500 Received: from tward (woos-max1-cs-15.dialne.bright.net [66.219.154.17]) by rhombus.bright.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g29CYvnv010897 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 07:34:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <00cd01c1c767$3997e7a0$0100a8c0@tward> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: <002c01c1c62c$6aa76320$01213e18@OEMCOMPUTER> <000901c1c62e$40168ee0$25329718@ubr.charterne.com> Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 07:25:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by rhombus.bright.net id g29CYvnv010897 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, Alex. In answer to your question sometime later this year. Gnopernicu= s is still in the low level phase. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Snow To: 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" > To: > 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 mpla= yer > could just access the video codec? So in other words, to start the movi= e > 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 Bergstr=F6m > To: > 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 (w= ell > > actually only play the sound of) DVD's in the console. What Igor aske= d > > 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 th= ere > isn't > > > any really way to watch DVDs from the console (frown) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup