Re: Play VCD on computer
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:30 -0500
dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:37:38PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote:
> |
> | > >
> | > > Yep -- xine. Works great thought the picture is a
> | > bit small, but
> | > > don't use esd for sound (very choppy when I tried
> | > it). (I should also
> | > > mention that I only tried it once on one vcd)
> | >
> | > I use mplayer. Very sweet xv accelerated fullscreen
> | > output.
>
> Interestingly enough, an apt-cache search for vcd only shows xine.
Have you tried ;-):
apt-cache search VideoCD
There are unofficial .debs of mplayer packaged by developer Marillat
(http://marillat.free.fr). It's even apt-gettable. My VCD players of
choice however are xine and smpeg-xmms (in Debian main).
The latter is actually just a plug-in for xmms proper that lets you play
VCD's using a feature documented in /usr/share/doc/smpeg-xmms/README.gz.
Use the "open location" (rather than file) option and type in either
"vcd:/dev/cdrom:#" (where # stands for track number) or simply
"vcd:/dev/cdrom". The advantage of using smpeg-xmms over plain
"plaympeg" from the smpeg-plaympeg package is that it lets you seek the
VCD, i.e. watch the movie from a part other than the beginning. The
disadvantage is that is that you can't play it without X.
mplayer, xine and vlc (another nice mpeg 1/2 player which recently got
working VCD support) are also "XFree-free" capable. With xine, however,
you are forced to watch the alphabet, kind of like the cinematic equivalent
of ascii art.
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