Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs
On 17/06/2014, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:24:24PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> vlc would open the file, but, Movie Player (mplayer ?) will not - it
>> returns an error "failure to parse stream").
>>
> Movie Player is probably Totem. In my experience, mplayer is better at
> playing obscure formats than Totem. VLC is good as well.
>
> -Rob
>
The Movie Player is totem, as suggested above.
gnome mplayer (this is on Debian 6) plays the movie, but, not very
well - it is choppy; both the video and the audio, replroduce a little
bit, then stop, then a little bit more, then stop, etc.
vlc seems the only one of the three mentioned, that successfully
processes the file /plays the video file.
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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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