Mplayer works but...
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon May 29 14:06:50 UTC 2006
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
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