Donald Henson wrote: [snip]
I got Mplayer to play AVI files. It would be nice if there were a gui but I suppose that is too much to ask. Thanks for your help.
Donald Henson wrote: [snip]
I got Mplayer to play AVI files. It would be nice if there were a gui but I suppose that is too much to ask. Thanks for your help.
There's a good gui for mplayer with various skins but it has to be compiled in. Try the command gmplayer rather than mplayer. If yours doesn't have the gui compiled in then you can either compile yourself, following the instructions at their website, or download the whole deal precompiled for you and ready to run from the packman website - http://packman.links2linux.org/. There, you will also find the win32 codec package and a whole lot of other codes for playing all sorts of video and audio streams, from Lame for mp3s to DivX. This site is your friend for multimedia on SuSE. Some of the same or similar codec packages are also available from the mplayer website. Download a fair selection, install and chances are that now either mplayer or xine (if you're using the packman xine rather than the crippled one that ships on the SuSE disks) will play almost anything you throw at them. Having said that, I've found that mplayer doesn't run here all that well on SuSE 9.0 - it segfaults if started from the start menu - and xine is a bit better. Probably just my setup. :) Fish