Mplayer works but...

[Robin Laing]

Mladen Adamovic wrote:
> Stephen Mirowski wrote:
> 
>> Xine has been my choice for DVDs for a few years.  Then I add in Gxine 
>> for casual videos (also can be used a plugin for browser).  Mplayer 
>> works best as a browser video plugin.
>>
> I also recommend Xine. I had problems with Mplayer on certain distros, 
> but haven't any big problem with Xine so far. Mplayer sometimes don't 
> work from repo, sometimes don't work from source, and sometimes it work 
> but only from command line interface.
> 
> I only had problems with some codec's Xine  does use - few times my 
> computer freezed during playback. But I knew that does movies have 
> codec's issue - the movies had coding bugs, lets say.
> 

I also use xine and have found that there are some avi's/mpg's that 
mplayer won't play.  I have also used vlc to play DVD's.
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Robin Laing