Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

[Harold Bibik <hwbj@borg.com>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:04:41PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote something like this:

> Hi,
> 
> What is the best solution on linux to play most
> movie formats? (doesn't need to be a single app)
> 
> I've been slowly trying to be able to perform most task on
> my Woody box that I used to do on Window$. But I'm still
> struggling a bit with playing various multimedia files.
> 
> I would like to be able to play any downloaded
> avi, mpg, asf, mov, vob and divx 3 and 4 files if possible...


xine worked ok for me but didn't play as many
formats as MPlayer. 

For me Mplayer has been excellent. I'd suggest getting the source
from the homepage, reading the docs and building it yourself.

There are even quick and easy instructions on making a deb
package for it...check it out at:


http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/



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