[NBLUG/talk] Ascii DVD players?

[rob]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 16:23, troy wrote:
> 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.)
> 
> Mplayer will use aalib for video output.  I use pre-built debian
> packages, so I'm not sure if you need to add any ./configure flags when
> building mplayer from source. (hmm., maybe --with-aalib ?)
> 
> The command is: 
> mplayer -vo aa dvd://1
> 
> "vo" is short for "video output".  Try 'mplayer -vo help' to see
> available outputs.  The dvd://1 syntax assumes /dev/dvd is a symlink to
> your dvd playing device.
> 
> And no, you're not crazy.  Watching video's in ascii is good fun,

Troy, can you point me to the 'pre-built' mplayer debs you use?