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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 00:23:15 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 19 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

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

I just typed:

mplayer -vo vesa -dvd-device /dev/hdd dvd://1

It plays nice quality video and skips all the introductory warnings
and menus and previews. I cannot switch vts to see what processes
are in use, whether it is trying to play wav or mp3.

You're using the vesa driver, which is a horrible kludge. (but it
works great!) If you have the CPU power, you can use X11 instead,
which is much slower but is more reliable.

There is no sound at all.

Please see if you can figure out what is causing this.

VESA was causing it. X11 did not slow it down at all, just shrank the picture to 1/2 size.


I will find some 'foreign
language' DVDs so I can read the subtitles while I keep working on
the sound problem. Or do DVDs provide closed caption?

I haven't tried captioning with MPlayer. I do believe that it is
supported. Not all DVDs come with subtitles. Foreign language DVDs
may not have captions by default.

We had some out from the library which did.

My partner says the DVD is 'really slow' but I think it was designed that way. Speech sounds normal, they just have nothing to say.

Does this mean I was viewing at 854x480?

Add the -noaspect option to play at the "standard" resolution.
This also speeds things up a little. You can do all kinds of
goofy resizes to the video with MPlayer (the kitchen sink of
video players)

Would this squash it sideway to fit on the monitor? I don't need to speed it up on 600MHz cpu and 64MB video RAM.

I wonder how to STOP the DVD player other than Ctrl-Alt-Del. Good
thing you included the documentation. Ctrl-C does not do it.

Pressing Esc twice usually does the trick.

Maybe Mplayer #3 will work where the first two did not, and play
mp3s on the PIII?

You seem to have resolved this in your second message.

Yes I did!.

Did I mention that the first mplayer played streaming audio? (I need to put in a 56K modem).

MPlayer #3 is a hybrid of the first two. It can work on any CPU,
and use standard OSS drivers simultaneously.

I look forward to getting a good download of it tomorrow, but will keep the other two just in case. Odd that the PI version won't work on the PIII but I think Ron also had a problem with it.


David





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