On Wednesday 19 June 2002 21:27, you wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Thanks Ralph, > > > > Seems as though I do have the necessary libdvdread and libdvdcss > > in the package after all. > > Stimulated by you suggestions I tried a few command variations , > > namely :- mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0 > > it worked , but no gui of course , > > and > > mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0 -chapter 20-25 -slang, > > this moved the movie on a bit and gives subtitles as well, > > You can try the same above command with gmplayer in stead of > mplayer, and it should work. Another option is to use your > middle-mouse button which gives you another menu in gmplayer. Use > it on the screen, and you should see something to do with DVD.
Yes, this works, thanks, never thought of it. Nice because you now get a volume and skip forward button or two etc. > > > However , the gui version > > gmplayer > > gives me the gui version but selecting the files does not work. > > The files come up for selection provided the cdrom is pre > > mounted from the desktop icon. > > Again, the DVD does not play the files, but the device. A DVD is > written in suck a way that it has a standard layour, and when > playing a DVD the player will look at the DVD as a whole, and not > the independent files. > > > However just as soon as I click the play tab it goes, with the > > usual libdvdcss warning in the subscreen viewer shell script. > > Is this due to that symlink problem you mentioned. If so could do > > with some advice. > > Same as the last E-mail... you cannot play independent files. Try > the middle mouse button (if you don't have one, try both left and > right together on the gmplayer movie box) However the gui simply does not let you select the device it has to be a file or nothing, I don't know why. However since the above works it doesn't matter. > > > Progress at last, but a qualified progress , I just need to sort > > this gui version sorted out and I'm there. > > John > > One last work .. the GUI is under development. Yes it looks nice, > and yes it works, but very limited. I too like a gui for my needs, > however I still use mplayer with just the console as I get a lot > more out of it (info, stability, choices/options) than with the > GUI. Please , I have absolutely nothing against the command line, I'm just not experienced with it, and I am the kind of person who doesn't have a mind like a telephone directory, and so I have to spend a lot of time working out beforehand what commands to store on a spare floppy and highlight them, and then middlemouse button them to the command line in terminal, however once set up I find this is easily the best method of doing things in many cases. So yes by all means , I want to learn the commands, but I am also the kind of person who likes to get everything working , including gui, in apple pie order. Of course Gmplayer is early days yet, but coming on. The next thing is to get to grips with mencoder, but I thought I would start another thread for that. Many thanks Ralph, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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