mplayer

Installing mplayer on kubuntu

By jeltsch on Thu, 03/29/2007 - 22:16
  1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the lines for universe (remove the "" in front of the lines)
  2. add a line similar to universe see the example: http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse
  3. download any extra codecs: wget http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20050412.tar.bz2
  4. unpack the codecs: tar -xvjf all-20050412.tar.bz2

    5. as sudo:

Watching, ripping and converting DVDs (xine, mplayer, mencoder, dvd, iso image)

By jeltsch on Sun, 11/12/2006 - 20:40

Both xine and MPlayer can play DVDs directly, but xine has a DVD navigation. In Mplayer you need to specify which movie (VOB file) you want to play:
xine dvd:// mplayer dvd://3 If you just want to temporarily store the DVD on your hard disk it might be sufficient to create a DVD image:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=rosenstrasse.iso The image can be mounted as follows:
sudo mount -o loop rosenstrasse.iso /media/temp/ Xine can play a DVD from an iso image directly (without mouting the image):

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