linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] udf DVD's, how to play them under Mint 6?

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] udf DVD's, how to play them under Mint 6?

Scott wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:24:33PM +0200, John Black wrote:
>> Darksyde wrote:
>>> I can't view a DVD with any player I have. MPlayer displays error msg.
>> Do you have VLC installed, I stopped messing with MPlayer a long time
>> ago.
> Why? Does VLC work in terminal too? Hrrm, let's try....
> Well, running it from xterm gives a whole lot of stuff in the terminal,
> looks like the compile time options, and little gtk thingie opened up.

So you are playing DVD movies in a terminal? ... do you have a plugin
like HighdefDVD2ASCII or something :)
But if you want to use vlc without the GUI interface you may use cvlc

> On the other hand, you younger folks might
> have reasons having to do with audio quality that would go over my
> head

Yes the video produced by VLC is of higher quality then a lot of other
players. Try loading a xvid file into another player and compare it to
the output VLC produced, looks much better in VLC.

Old folks, *slaps forehead*

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John
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