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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> I then found your BL3 plain text (with bold) version, which is 
> /usr/man/mplayer.gz (not a terribly conventional-looking location - 
> the other things in there are directories)

As Steven said, this is for BL3, where the manpages are of this
format.

> and can read that just 
> fine.  How does one convert a man page to this format?  The 
> man-format one is 52K vs 63K for the text version.

I use (with full-size man):

man mplayer >mplayer.txt
gzip mplayer.txt
mv mplayer.txt.gz mplayer.gz

Steven may be able to provide you with a better method.

> It will be great to be able to skip past the warning messages in a 
> DVD movie, and to see the second feature, but can I actually use 
> the above script to play DVD sound which is synchronized with the 
> DVD video?

I notice that when -ao pcm is used on a regular video, the video
goes at hyper speed. I'm not sure if the fifo helps smooth things
out.

> If not, no big deal.  We must have ONE computer out of the three 
> newest ones that will work with your i686 mplayer.  Let me know if 
> I need an actual Intel cpu.

You merely need something compatible, such as AMD or Cyrix chips.

> Why is mplayer telling me 'No bind found for key F3

Did you press F3? The message basically means, "You pressed F3,
and I don't know what to do when that is pressed."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Clement" <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>

> DVD isn't really image manipulation, it is more of displaying lots of 
> images really, really fast.

The way those images are encoded (MPEG2) makes a big dent in the speed
of decoding.


David

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