[NBLUG/talk] Ascii DVD players?

Kyle Rankin kyle at nblug.org
Fri Oct 1 16:14:06 PDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:07:29PM -0700, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> I'm running a Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop dual-booating Windows XP and
> SuSE 9.0. DVDs play well enough under Windows, but I'm wondering what
> options I have for playing DVDs under Linux.
> 
> At the moment, playing DVDs under Windows is probably enough for me,
> but I'm just dying to know--is there a DVD player that uses aalib or
> libcaca to play in Ascii? I just think that would be really neat. :-)
> (I know, I don't have a life.)
> 
> Failing that, anybody know if there's an open-source DVD player I can
> compile with aalib?
> 

Both xine, mplayer, and totem all work great as DVD players. Mplayer
supports aalib output, so you can do something like:

   mplayer -vo aa dvd://1 

and play the first chapter of a dvd with aalib output. You will of course
need libdvdread and other dvd-playing libs, and possible decss in some form
to decrypt the DVD. I'm not immediately sure how to get those for SUSE
(there's a 3rd party repository for Debian).

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