Re: [newbie] What video player software?

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Monday 22 December 2003 08:43 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:

->  There is a GUI, kmplayer, which is useful for Web browser use
-> for click'n on 'movie' type links. Works well with Konqueror. Of
-> course ya need the maybe illict codecs from plf to make it all
-> work.  Personally, I stand fast in the belief that if I bought or
-> rented it, otherwise publicy accessed it, so did I the codecs an
-> ability an right to play it.

and a certain court in Norway agrees with you (as do I!)... :-)

http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003122201126NWSWLL

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Re: [newbie] What video player software?

[Dennis Myers]

On Monday 22 December 2003 07:43 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:42 am, Sharrea Day wrote:
> > Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player.
> >  Although I must admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all
> > that much - it just works so I leave everything apart from
> > skins as the default.
> >
> > Sharrea
>
>   Even mplayer's own developers distain, disown the GUI. Learn
> to use mplayer on the CL. It's more fun, many more 'on the fly'
> features than the GUI is capable of, any format includin DVD's.
> Works quicker, better too. Put's all other players in the dust.
> Runner up, Xine lost out a year ago IMO.
>
>  There is a GUI, kmplayer, which is useful for Web browser use
> for click'n on 'movie' type links. Works well with Konqueror. Of
> course ya need the maybe illict codecs from plf to make it all
> work.  Personally, I stand fast in the belief that if I bought or
> rented it, otherwise publicy accessed it, so did I the codecs an
> ability an right to play it.
Exactly, and no one should be able to tell us that we have to buy  a 
particular type of electronics machine to watch something.  The industry just 
does not get it.  I have found that xine works ok in gui for most of what 
folks want, but the choices are numerous. I will take Tom's advice and learn 
what I can of cli for Mplayer and explore that one further.  Find what fits, 
try them all, then make a choice or two. Linux has more than one way to skin 
a crocodile. : )
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Re: [newbie] What video player software?

[Tom Brinkman]

On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:42 am, Sharrea Day wrote:
> Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player.
>  Although I must admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all
> that much - it just works so I leave everything apart from
> skins as the default.
>
> Sharrea
  
  Even mplayer's own developers distain, disown the GUI. Learn 
to use mplayer on the CL. It's more fun, many more 'on the fly' 
features than the GUI is capable of, any format includin DVD's. 
Works quicker, better too. Put's all other players in the dust. 
Runner up, Xine lost out a year ago IMO.

 There is a GUI, kmplayer, which is useful for Web browser use 
for click'n on 'movie' type links. Works well with Konqueror. Of 
course ya need the maybe illict codecs from plf to make it all 
work.  Personally, I stand fast in the belief that if I bought or 
rented it, otherwise publicy accessed it, so did I the codecs an 
ability an right to play it.
-- 
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Re: [newbie] What video player software?

[Lanman]

Actually, you might want to give VideoLan Client a try.
Have a look at their site;

http://www.videolan.org

Lanman

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On 12/22/2003 at 6:42 AM Sharrea Day wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:32, Iván Velamazán González
wrote:
>> What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those
Windows Media
>> files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine,
Ogle? What is more
>> "multimedia capable"?
>>
>> My thought:
>> .- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references
on it.
>> .- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could
use it. :-(
>> .- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been
using... till it
>> broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W**
multimedia files.
>> .- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I
used for a short
>> time. I don't know all of its possibilities.
>
>I used to use xine exclusively in MDK 9.0 but with 9.1 and
9.2 I use
>mplayer
>when I want to watch more than one video and totem for
only one video -
>mainly short mpegs as I don't have a DVD drive.
>
>Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player.
Although I must
>admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all that much -
it just works
>so
>I leave everything apart from skins as the default.
>
>Sharrea
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Re: [newbie] What video player software?

[Sharrea Day]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:32, Iván Velamazán González wrote:
> What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media
> files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more
> "multimedia capable"?
>
> My thought:
> .- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it.
> .- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-(
> .- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it
> broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files.
> .- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short
> time. I don't know all of its possibilities.

I used to use xine exclusively in MDK 9.0 but with 9.1 and 9.2 I use mplayer 
when I want to watch more than one video and totem for only one video - 
mainly short mpegs as I don't have a DVD drive.

Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player.  Although I must 
admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all that much - it just works so 
I leave everything apart from skins as the default.

Sharrea
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Re: [newbie] What video player software?

[robin]

Iván Velamazán González wrote:
What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media 
files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more 
"multimedia capable"?

My thought:
.- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it.
.- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-(
.- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it 
broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files.
.- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short 
time. I don't know all of its possibilities.
I've used Xine for a long time, but I've started playing around with 
Totem, and I'm quite impressed.

Plusses:
* Simple to use
* Can play just about anything, including Quicktime
* Nice visualisation for audio
Minuses
* Doesn't have the range of features that Mplayer has (there again, 
nothing short of video editing software like Cinerella does)
* I've had occasional sound problems, though that may be more to do with 
my sound setup than Totem
* Full-screen option for Quicktime comes out in the wrong resolution 
(and the Ctrl-Alt-Minus key trick won't work)
* Screenshots on DVDs come out with the wrong dimensions (problem with 
widescreen settings?)
* Doesn't have a pretty, skinnable GUI like Xine or XMMS (this is a 
personal thing - I hate GTK!)

OK, so there are more minuses than pluses, but the minuses all look 
fixable in the near future.

Sir Robin

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[newbie] What video player software?

[Iván Velamazán González]

What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media 
files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more 
"multimedia capable"?

My thought:
.- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it.
.- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-(
.- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it 
broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files.
.- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short 
time. I don't know all of its possibilities.

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