Rip DVD Audio with MPlayer | You can use MPlayer to rip audio from a DVD into a high quality .wav file. You will need to add the medibuntu repo in order to install libdvdcss. sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 mplayer Pop in your favorite DVD, then issue this command: mplayer -vo null -ao pcm -ao pcm:file=audio.wav dvd://01 You may have to
Nvidia card for GPU video playback in Linux
Nvidia card for GPU video playback in Linux | How do I use my Nvidia graphics card for video playback in Linux? One way is to use mplayer and vdpau. Firstly, this requires you have a supported Nvidia GeForce 8 series or later graphics card. Wikipedia has a supported list here. In the latest Ubuntu, make sure to have the following installed: mplayer libvdpau1
