On 4/3/07, Jan Tiggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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dwain wrote:
> 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,
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Mark Goldstein
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