A Movie system for FC6 and F7

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 02:20:53 UTC 2007


lanas wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:27:48 -0600,
> Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote :
> 
>>     # yum install vlc
> 
>>     I clicked on it and a small panel showed up. No idea what to do
>> but I clicked on File and then Open Disk and then clicked a little
>> more and the movie started. It was exciting because I was not sure I
>> would ever see this.
> 
> What would then be the difference with xine ?  I always use xine to
> view movies.  What does vlc add ?

Among other things it's cross-platform with matching windows/mac/linux 
versions and even though it is called a client it can also act as a 
server, streaming data to any number of clients on any platform. With a 
little better playlist support it could be really nice.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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