Jan Tiggy wrote:
> 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.
>
> thx
> Jan
>
> PS: And codecs definitely ain't the problem. ;)
0.86a is the current release and available through YaST2 with the proper
installation source. I don't listen to CDs on the computer much if at
all, but I like the wide variety of radio stations VLC offers through
Shoutcast.
I wouldn't know about crappy source code and I don't find it slow on
Linux, and I've got a slow machine. What do you mean crappy source code?
Dwain
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