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?

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:37:03PM +0200, John Black wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>
> No worries, vlc is an open source player so it can do that as well,
> CTRL+ALT+F2
> and after login, #cvlc "Vanessa-Mae - 02 - Contradanza (M. Bratt).ogg"
> or for the audiophiles among us
> #cvlc "02 Contradanza (M. Bratt).flac"

Tried that, still gives a bunch of errors to terminal, though it
definitely plays the music. Might be a CentOS issue, but I'm simply too
lazy to look into it.
>
> > Looking at a DVD in both (in GUI, of course) yes, the quality does seem
> > a bit better in vlc. Of course, I might just be influenced by what you
> > wrote.
>
> I am not sure about DVDs but if you try to view a movie you backed up,
> say a DVD compressed into a 700MB file to be burned as a video CD.
> And you watch that file in different players you will notice a different
> right away. Not like "I think it looks better" but rather "wow does this
> look horrible.

Tried with avis. Same thing (to me). A tiny bit clearer, perhaps, in
VLC, but again, I might be influenced by you.

There was nothing as drastic (to me, at least) as what you mention, that
is, a feeling of, blch, mplayer is horrible. All done in CentOS, so
probably older versions of both

mplayer-1.0-0.40.svn20090711.el5.rf

vlc-0.9.9a-3.el5.rf

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