VLC Media Player

[Temlakos]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>    When I yummed this software and discovered it will display DVD  
> Movies I was very happy. While others have manged to get Totem to do 
> this I was never able to. Since Totem is so poor it was carried over 
> to F7 where many folks had trouble making it view Movies. There was 
> all manner of dark talk about secret files needed that you can go to 
> jail if the FBI finds you have it.
>
>     Several asked what else will vlc do? Well just now I copied my FC4 
> Desktop to this FC6 and it has a bunch of .wmv files from my buddy in 
> Austrailia. They are funny and have good music. It turns out that vlc 
> plays these .wmv files much better than Mplayer on FC4!
>
>    So it plays DVD Movies and Files. A real Multimedia software.
>
> Karl
>
I discovered vlc a long time ago--I got tired of trying to make totem 
work and gave up.

Vlc will not play Flash video; mplayer will. Other than that, vlc will 
play just about anything. I've also used it to take screenshots from 
movie files and DVD's.

Temlakos