Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> *  dev-libs/DirectFB-extra
>       Description: Extra image/video/font providers and graphics/input
> drivers for DirectFB
> 
> *  dev-libs/DirectFB
>       Description: Thin library on top of the Linux framebuffer devices
> 
> *  x11-base/xdirectfb
>       Description: XDirectFB is a rootless XServer on top of DirectFB
> 
> Which of the above will do that? It would be cool to be able to shut off
> Xorg, switch to VT1-5 and use mplayer.

dev-libs/DirectFB is the only library you need for console DVD playback,
then set the directfb USE flag and emerge mplayer again. Invoke mplayer
with 'mplayer -vo directfb dvd://1' from the console.

> P133 w/128MB ram.

I don't think that's a powerful enough CPU to decode a DVD on the fly,
so you might want to purchase an MPEG-2 hardware accellerator.

Dave

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