VLC (Video Lan Client) is CrunchBang's default media player, accessible in the the menu under 'Media Player', it also has the keybinding W-m (Windows/Superkey-m) assigned to it. Out of the box VLC has support for DVDs, MP3s, Flash and many other formats, it also has the ability to stream music and video over a network.
Under 'Media' on the top level menu select 'open file'
or from the terminal:
vlc ~/path/to/file
A list of commands is available in the VLC Help menu or in the terminal using the command:
vlc -H | less
To play files without VLC's user interface, use:
cvlc ~/path/to/file
Using VLC, you can override the source aspect ratio as command line option
vlc --aspect-ratio 16:9
or in the Preference dialog of VLC's GUI (Preferences → Video → Source aspect ratio)
Common aspect ratios are:
Fullscreen: 1.33 or 4:3 Widescreen: 1.78 or 16:9 Typical DVD: 1.85 Cinemascope: 2.35
This one-liner can extract the audio of a .ts file and save it into an .mp3
vlc file.ts --no-sout-video --sout '#std{mux=raw,dst=file.mp3}'
This one-liner produces an uncompressed AC3 audio file.
vlc --no-sout-video dvdsimple:///dev/scd0@1:1 :sout='#std{access=file,mux=raw,dst=./file.ac3}'
Check and change paths and file names if no output is produced.