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On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Happy new year all of you. I read about DVD on Linux. It soundet real
> difficult with deferent encoding for US and Europe and many settings
> to do. Is mplayer able to just play the DVD if I got a readable DVD
> drive?


Assuming the DVD players is hdd (secondary slave)

ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd

Load the sound drivers.  Put in the DVD.
You can set the sound (oss) and video (vesa, or if you prefer, x11 but 
load X) defaults in a config file, or specify as:

mplayer -ao oss -vo vesa dvd://1-20

I forget if this fills the screen.  I chose a video card that does 
740x520 mode.  If using x11, and that mode is not available, use 800x600
and you will get a smaller image.  There is probably some way to enlarge 
it when starting mplayer.

Optionally add

-framedrop or -hardframedrop
if you lose sound, on a slow cpu or video card (500 MHz, or PCI video)

-alang en (English talking - one DVD got it wrong and Barbara Streisand 
spoke French through the American film).

-slang en (for English subtitles

Read the man page for keyboard commands.  / and * change volume.  m mutes. 
spacebar stops.  ESC escapes (exits).  On reset from vesa mode type reset 
to get back your cursor.




> /mikkel
>
> > Mplayer will also play webcast TV programs.  See the archives for a list
> > of low bandwidth ones that display in 3" diagonal 'screen'.
> > And DVD movies.  What else will it do?
> >
> > Let it snow. (We got nearly half a meter in the last couple days).
> >
> > Sindi