On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:30 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
