playing a DVD with mplayer

[Peder Blom]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:13:52 -0400
stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> I just got a new notebook with a DVD drive. I compiled mplayer from
> the ports.
> 
> Now I want to play a smaple VD that I have. What do I need to do to
> mount the DVD?
> 
> -- 

You don't have to mount it. Just run mplayer.

As an example, this is what I do to view chapter 5 of title 6 with
japanese sound and english subtitles in fullscreen mode:

mplayer -dvd 6 -dvd-device /dev/acd0c -alang ja -slang en -fs
 -cache 8192 -chapter 5

See "man mplayer" for (many!) more options.