Jan Tiggy wrote:
dwain wrote:
You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it was only for Windows. Encrypted DVDs, no problem. It's got all the codecs you need. I'm one happy newbie Linux user. Got my jazz radio going on and passing on some hopefully good information. If you want it Google, vlc project; the download and install instructions are all there.
Not really. I take mplayer for movies and amarok for music. Vlc is used by me just for streaming xvid to my set-top-box and only out of CLI. IMO VLC is slow, the source code is crappy and the current release is just broken for my purposes. The last running release is 0.85a which I had to compile for SUSE 10.2 myself. It is probably the best player for Windows platforms but not for linux and that's for sure.
thx Jan
PS: And codecs definitely ain't the problem. ;) 0.86a is the current release and available through YaST2 with the proper installation source. I don't listen to CDs on the computer much if at all, but I like the wide variety of radio stations VLC offers through Shoutcast.
I wouldn't know about crappy source code and I don't find it slow on Linux, and I've got a slow machine. What do you mean crappy source code? Dwain -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org