Ralph Shumaker wrote: [snip] > I'm barely even a newbie on this topic. But as of this moment, I'm able > to play the mounted DVD without extra options. > $ mplayer dvd://1 > > I even added the switch to dump to jpg files, but apparently my system > is a tad underpowered to do that without a hitch. Still, it seems that > the video is still dumping every frame to jpg files. I hear audio, > altho choppy. I don't exactly need the audio, altho it is a good > indicator of how far along it is in the movie since dumping the video to > jpg files takes away the visual.
Is there any particular reason you have to dump the whole movie as jpeg files? You could instead just take snapshots at appropriate points. Run mplayer like this: $ mplayer -vf snapshot -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1 Every time you press the s key you will get a PNG snapshot. From there you can convert the PNG image to whatever you want. > [snip] >> The DVD does not need to be mounted to play. To play the first piece of >> the DVD, do this: >> >> $ mplayer -fs -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1 >> >> where the options have the following meaning: >> >> -fs Full screen >> > > Is this as opposed to widescreen? I definitely want widescreen. > Currently, without any such option, I'm getting widescreen. No. This just makes mplayer expand the image to take over your whole screen. It keeps the scaling as directed in the file or as in the override on the command line. If you are using a normal monitor with a 4:3 aspect ratio and the movie is widescreen, mplayer will place black bands above and below the image to make it look right. This is sometimes called letterbox. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
