From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from hagus.bright.net ([205.212.123.74]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16jgCi-0003tJ-00 for ; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 07:44:04 -0500 Received: from tward (woos-max1-cs-15.dialne.bright.net [66.219.154.17]) by hagus.bright.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g29Ci2cf003164 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 07:44:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <00ed01c1c768$7e735b60$0100a8c0@tward> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: Subject: Re: Playing DVDs in linux console. (mplayer installation) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 07:46:54 -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 hagus.bright.net id g29Ci2cf003164 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, I think what some of the members like myself were expecting was a ful= l 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 Bergstr=F6m To: 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 tha= t > you run mplayer with a visual picture or what? > > mplayer can handle ALL possible codecs you can think of, and DVDs, if y= ou > 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >