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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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