Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.
I also like vlc. Some files will play better in one
program while others work in another. I keep
vlc, mplayer, xanim and xine around.
BTW, keep in mind that many mov files you find will
be encoded in a quicktime format that is proprietary
and unavailable on Linux. Unless somebody else knows
something new that I haven't heard yet...
Bob
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:36:38PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 10:04, Balazs Javor wrote:
> > 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...
> >
> > I've tried aviplay but with little success. On some files
> > there was sound but no picture (or garbled picture).
> > And allthough it says it should be able to play asf it didn't
> > seem to work for me either.
> > (I've read the readme according to which additional codecs might be
> > needed, but as far as I can tell I've installed all plugins, and
> > they seem to contain all the mentioned codecs.)
> >
> > I would be most greatfull for suggestions regarding what's the
> > most effective way to play the above mentioned formats!
> >
> > Many thanks for your help in advance!
> > best regards,
> > Balazs
>
> As many others have mentioned, mplayer is what I like the best by far. I
> would suggest grabbing the latest CVS, I've never had a problem with it
> not building. With mplayer you also get mencoder if you want to rip DVDs
> to avi, or whatever. Oh, and it's also skinnable. I like the neutron
> skin the best at the moment.
>
> I would also mention that you stay far away from precompiled version of
> mplayer, it is really designed to be compiled from scratch on the
> machine it's running on.
>
> My 2c.
>
> Sean
>
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