Re: 2 quick questions

[Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:06:21AM -0700, Paul wrote:
> 
> --- "Rodney D. Myers" <rdmyers@pe.net> wrote:

> > My second question, for a friend with a laptop,
> > seriously considering
> > moving from xp to debain, will mplayer play DVD's?
> > If not, what
> > application(s) should I look for?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> Well since mplayer doesnt play dvds in windows, at
> least it never has for me, i dont see a related
> version being able to do that in linux, not sure
> though.  Try heading to  www.freshmeat.net    And just
> search their pkgs for something like dvd player etc.

>From the mplayer man page:

        mplayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many  other
        Unices and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation).  It plays
        most MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, RM, QT/MOV/MP4, OGG/OGM,
        VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ files,
        supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.  You
        can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV
        movies, too (without using the avi?-B
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