On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:41:45AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > >> > > >> > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured > >> > web-browser, or read a pdf with diagrams without X. > >> > > >> Except that watching a DVD with 'mplayer -vo aa dvd://1' is quite the > >> console-based experience. Also, they don't make web browser much more > >> full featured that lynx. I'll grant you that diagrams in a PDF are a > >> bit tougher, though :-) > >> > > I haven't looked at mplayer. Do you mean that I can watch a DVD on a > > serial console? > > Yes, but don't expect to get any sound over a serial console. I suggest > watching it in an xterm on the same machine as the DVD player, make the > font size really small and the window area really large to get acceptable > resolution.
If I'm going to run X to get an xterm then I'll just use VLC. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
