mPlayer

Playback all sorts of media

Often there are technical limitations on what you can do with DVD's, on-line videos etc.

Two examples:

• Some DVD-players will only play DVD-movies from a certain part of the world (because of so called region codes)
• Many software programs (including RealPlayer og Windows Media Player) will not let you make a personal copy of a media file.

Such limitations are typically introduced by the companies behind the media players in cooperation with the movie and recording industry. They are usually not based on legislation, and because of that you probably do not need to respect them. (Read more about this in k3b).

We have installed the media playser mPlayer with necessary codecs on this CD. With mPlayer you can watch all sorts of DVD's, on-line videos etc. without technical limitations.

Using the program mEncoder you will even be able to save what you have seen or heard in mPlayer. Unfortunately, the is yet no graphical interface for mEncoder, but if you open a terminal window, it is easy to download any video stream with this comand:

  mencoder -o FILENAME -oac copy -ovc copy LINK

This will save the video stream LINK in the file FILENAME.

For Windows

For Mac and other platforms