What is a Good Video Player?
What is a good multimedia player for SuSE 8.1 I've tried aktion and atrun but they both kinda disappoint me. I would like somethat that has support for a wide variety of multimedia files avi, divx, mpg,wmv, etc and the other features I dont care about. As long as it can play a wide variety of files well. Does anyone know of, or use a program for universal video playback that they're happy with? #---------------------- #Eric Bambach #Eric@CISU.net #----------------------
On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 04:47, Eric wrote:
What is a good multimedia player for SuSE 8.1 I've tried aktion and atrun but they both kinda disappoint me. I would like somethat that has support for a wide variety of multimedia files avi, divx, mpg,wmv, etc and the other features I dont care about. As long as it can play a wide variety of files well.
Does anyone know of, or use a program for universal video playback that they're happy with?
mplayer or xine. I sometimes use mplayer from the command line, and sometimes xine with the totem GUI. Both are excellent, with support for just about everything you care to throw at them, including DVDs, VCDs and web streams (even quicktime). You can get RPMs for SuSE 8.1 for both, including all other packages you need (codecs for the various formats etc.) from http://packman.links2linux.de I believe the mplayer packages there are built by the SuSE maintainer.
On Sunday 13 April 2003 09:47 pm, Eric wrote:
What is a good multimedia player for SuSE 8.1 I've tried aktion and atrun but they both kinda disappoint me. I would like somethat that has support for a wide variety of multimedia files avi, divx, mpg,wmv, etc and the other features I dont care about. As long as it can play a wide variety of files well.
Does anyone know of, or use a program for universal video playback that they're happy with?
Get the latest Mplayer tarball from http://www.mplayerhq.hu -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER@VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE
Does anyone know of, or use a program for universal video playback that they're happy with?
My wife had trouble with one avi file in Win ME. mplayer even played that one! Thbe only disappointing thing so far has been quick time. Thankfully, I hardly ever come across the quick time format. Salman
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On April 14, 2003 09:27 pm, Salman Khilji wrote:
Thbe only disappointing thing so far has been quick time. Thankfully, I hardly ever come across the quick time format.
Just out of curiosity what is your problem with QucikTime? I have no problems with playing QuickTime clips on my computer. Charles - -- "Linux, because up-time matters gawk; talk; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; touch; gasp; finger; gasp; mount;\ fsck; more; yes; gasp; umount; make clean; make mrproper; sleep." - --Drunken Bastard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+mzeM3epPyyKbwPYRArdDAKCR0X1EMYa604a8Y+iIY5eevfUdAgCeNH7r vddNzgOZGrz04/4ff23HRDs= =TLbz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
jvollmer@visi.com
Does anyone know of, or use a program for universal video playback that they're happy with?
My wife had trouble with one avi file in Win ME. mplayer even played that one! Thbe only disappointing thing so far has been quick time. Thankfully, I hardly ever come across the quick time format.
IIRC, the latest Mplayer will read Quicktime with the Sorenson Codec. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER@VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE
Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll try out mplayer when i get some time tmw :)
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