Mark Goldstein wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Jan Tiggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> dwain wrote:
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>> > You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out
>> > there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for
>> Linux;
>> > and I thought it was only for Windows. Encrypted DVDs, no problem.
>> > It's got all the codecs you need. I'm one happy newbie Linux
>> user. Got
>> > my jazz radio going on and passing on some hopefully good information.
>> > If you want it Google, vlc project; the download and install
>> > instructions are all there.
>>
>> Not really. I take mplayer for movies and amarok for music.
>> Vlc is used by me just for streaming xvid to my set-top-box and only out
>> of CLI. IMO VLC is slow, the source code is crappy and the current
>> release is just broken for my purposes. The last running release is
>> 0.85a which I had to compile for SUSE 10.2 myself.
>> It is probably the best player for Windows platforms but not for linux
>> and that's for sure.
>
> I tend to agree with Jan.
> I used mplayer for some years. After installing VLC in 10.2 I thought
> I will not need another player (I have version 0.8.6-0 from Packman).
> But recently I ripped a number of VOB files from DVD and discovered
> that VLC just could not play them correctly. VLC palyed couple of
> seconds and then jumped forward almost to the end and stopped. Not
> sure what could be the reason. I installed MPlayer from the same
> Packman repository and it played the videos fine.
>
> Regards,
I'll have to try mplayer then. I don't think my video card will do very
well with videos, and I think my sound card is getting ready to die.
It's starting to hiss, or it could be my headphones.
Dwain
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