-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From looking at xine, it doesn't go to ascii ---- however! Mplayer does work. To run a regular file in mplayer to ascii (such as mpg or avi), use this command line: mplayer -vo aa -framedrop filenamehere The "-vo aa" says use this video driver, the Ascii art library. The framedrop says to drop frames to sync with the sound in case your processor isn't fast enough to do all the decoding/display. For a dvd, it is a different order. mplayer dvd://1 -vo aa -framedrop The "dvd://1" says play from the dvd, title 1. Then the rest of the options come after that. For installation, from rpm's it is a -serious- pain in the arse. Especially for getting the libaries, decss, avi codecs, etc and compiling from scatch. Since I'm a Debian freak, there is thankfully an apt-get source in France that has -everything- to get mplayer working with dvd support. For stable (woody): deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main For testing (sarge): deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main For unstable (sid): deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main Then do: apt-get update ; apt-get install mplayer-686 The other mplayer packages are: mplayer-386 mplayer-k6 The repository also includes libdvdnav so you can play dvd's in xine. On Friday 14 March 2003 20:43, you wrote: > OK, we talked about this at the meeting. How do you do it? > > L > > > ---- > Husker Linux Users Group mailing list > To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE - -- J.R. Wessels jwessels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG fingerprint: 6F23 25BD FF92 3308 9374 4026 B5CD CE09 BC07 9BC5 Public key found on my website at http://ranko.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+cqQ2tc3OCbwHm8URAgOpAKC2dZgtHLZkJwzZHL/J+31VleZWewCeKckG cBMIag5w1oh+zOFo0GXDuIc= =DQQx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---- Husker Linux Users Group mailing list To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE