Does anyone know of a good Linux AVI Player or a plug-in for another player? Don Henson
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 12:45, Michael Galloway wrote:
Hi Donald!
yup, mplayer, apt-get install Mplayer-suite
-- me
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Donald Henson wrote:
Does anyone know of a good Linux AVI Player or a plug-in for another player?
Don Henson
I used synaptic to install Mplayer-suite. There was a lot of activity and stuff appeared to be downloading. OK. Now where is it? Is it a gui or do I have to use the command line? Don Henson
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 1:41 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
Does anyone know of a good Linux AVI Player or a plug-in for another player?
Xine and mplayer from apt handle AVI files. I _just_ went through the effort pain of installing APT, so let me know if you need help with that. APT rocks. -Nick
Don Henson
-- <<< It's the question that drives us. >>> /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 12:49, Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 1:41 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
Does anyone know of a good Linux AVI Player or a plug-in for another player?
Xine and mplayer from apt handle AVI files. I _just_ went through the effort pain of installing APT, so let me know if you need help with that. APT rocks.
-Nick
Don Henson
-- <<< It's the question that drives us. >>> /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences
I THINK I have apt installed correctly. I'm even up to using Synaptic. This AVI player, though, is my second install. (First was an upgrade to K3B.) That one went pretty smoothly (ahem) but I can't seem to get this one right. I've used Synaptic to install Mplayer and Mplayer-suite. I'm assuming that Mplayer uses some of the stuff in Mplayer-suite. I've found the command mplayer but there are so many options, I don't know where to start. Could you give me a command line to play an avi file in some made-up directory? Maybe I can start there and work my way up. (There's no gui for Mplayer, is there?) Don Henson
Hi Donald! all things mplayerish: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html -- michael On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Donald Henson wrote:
I THINK I have apt installed correctly. I'm even up to using Synaptic. This AVI player, though, is my second install. (First was an upgrade to K3B.) That one went pretty smoothly (ahem) but I can't seem to get this one right. I've used Synaptic to install Mplayer and Mplayer-suite. I'm assuming that Mplayer uses some of the stuff in Mplayer-suite. I've found the command mplayer but there are so many options, I don't know where to start. Could you give me a command line to play an avi file in some made-up directory? Maybe I can start there and work my way up. (There's no gui for Mplayer, is there?)
Don Henson
Thanks. On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:02, Michael Galloway wrote:
Hi Donald!
all things mplayerish: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html
-- michael
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Donald Henson wrote:
I THINK I have apt installed correctly. I'm even up to using Synaptic. This AVI player, though, is my second install. (First was an upgrade to K3B.) That one went pretty smoothly (ahem) but I can't seem to get this one right. I've used Synaptic to install Mplayer and Mplayer-suite. I'm assuming that Mplayer uses some of the stuff in Mplayer-suite. I've found the command mplayer but there are so many options, I don't know where to start. Could you give me a command line to play an avi file in some made-up directory? Maybe I can start there and work my way up. (There's no gui for Mplayer, is there?)
Don Henson
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:51, Donald Henson wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 12:49, Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 1:41 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
Does anyone know of a good Linux AVI Player or a plug-in for another player?
Xine and mplayer from apt handle AVI files. I _just_ went through the effort pain of installing APT, so let me know if you need help with that. APT rocks.
-Nick
Don Henson
-- <<< It's the question that drives us. >>> /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences
I THINK I have apt installed correctly. I'm even up to using Synaptic. This AVI player, though, is my second install. (First was an upgrade to K3B.) That one went pretty smoothly (ahem) but I can't seem to get this one right. I've used Synaptic to install Mplayer and Mplayer-suite. I'm assuming that Mplayer uses some of the stuff in Mplayer-suite. I've found the command mplayer but there are so many options, I don't know where to start. Could you give me a command line to play an avi file in some made-up directory? Maybe I can start there and work my way up. (There's no gui for Mplayer, is there?)
Don Henson
Replying to my own reply: 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. Don Henson
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
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 3:27 pm, Mark Crean wrote:
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.
FWIW, Xine does have a pretty nice GUI, also, but I usually run mplayer. -Nick -- <<< Knock, knock, Neo. >>> /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:27, Mark Crean wrote:
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
Thanks for the pointer. I installed gxine and it looks okay except that I currently have no AVI files to test it on. :-) Don Henson
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 22:06, Donald Henson wrote:
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.
I don't know if the suite install also creates gmplayer, but as written before: have a look at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html. I've never enjoyed using the gui myself (I prefer to start the movies directly full-screen from Konqueror using mplayer), but I've had it working in the past. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Donald Henson wrote:
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 is a GUI, however whoever built the RPM that you have installed will need to have compiled from source with --enable-gui specified during ./configure. If that was done, gmplayer will exist on your system and gmplayer should be executed to run mplayer in GUI mode. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:31, Anthony Edwards wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Donald Henson wrote:
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 is a GUI, however whoever built the RPM that you have installed will need to have compiled from source with --enable-gui specified during ./configure.
If that was done, gmplayer will exist on your system and gmplayer should be executed to run mplayer in GUI mode.
-- Anthony Edwards
anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net OK. Found gmplayer. Something comes up but it's not a skin. It appears that I don't have any skins. Do you know where I can get some? Don Henson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:57:35PM -0700, Donald Henson wrote:
OK. Found gmplayer. Something comes up but it's not a skin. It appears that I don't have any skins. Do you know where I can get some?
Skins can be downloaded from: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html And subsequently follow the instructions at: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/gui.html -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:06, Anthony Edwards wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:57:35PM -0700, Donald Henson wrote:
OK. Found gmplayer. Something comes up but it's not a skin. It appears that I don't have any skins. Do you know where I can get some?
Skins can be downloaded from:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
And subsequently follow the instructions at:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/gui.html
-- Anthony Edwards
anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net Thanks.
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