On Friday 21 February 2003 11:25, John Pettigrew wrote:
Unless anyone knows of a good RPM of mplayer?
Why, yes. Henne Vogelsang, as part of the Packman project, has RPMs for MPlayer available @ http://packman.links2linux.de/index.php4?action=128 . And they are up to date, e.g., 0.90rc4 RPMs are up. You might have some downloading to do, though, as the RPM is compiled with lots enabled (e.g., lame, xvid, etc.). If you want MPlayer to nicely integrate into your KDE desktop (and who doesn't...), I would recommend installing KMPlayer (http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/kmplayer.html). It even has a KPart, meaning it can be embedded into Konqueror. This is great for, say, going to Apple's Quicktime site and viewing the trailers in-place. Thibaut Cousin has RPM available at his APT repository (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.1-i386/RPMS.suser-tcousin/).
Alternatively, you could try xine or ogle, both of which are supposed to be very good.
IMO, xine has the worst UI I've seen in a while, especially for a media player. Ogle is a DVD-only player, so this would not really hit the description of the original poster's all-purpose media player. Ogle, however, has a nice GUI (Goggles) and it's a better DVD player than MPlayer because of its support for DVD menus (which the MPlayer developers dislike). Hope that helps...