----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Deane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [Scottish] Media Player
> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 4:53 pm, Gavin McCord wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What media player does everyobdy use? > > > I am hoping to find one that will play divx/xvid/vcd/svcd/mpeg2 > > > Is this too much to ask? > > > Thanks > > > Allan > > > > mplayer - http://mplayerhq.hu rocks. > > I have to admit I like Xine, Never tried it on Divx, but plays VCDs perfectly, > Mplayer for me has never worked right, seems very clunky, and I have a lot of > problems getting good sound on it, or any sound in certain cirscumstances. > All the Facia's for it are a bit complicated wereas Xine is simple and works > > I tried mplayer from source - took about 4-5 minutes to compile :-o Anyway, it crashed while trying to use fullscreen mode, so I`ll give xine a shot. On another note, does anybody know how to make Linux use the extended ASCII character set? I have re-written my game (hexmine) in c++ and under windows I used some chars in the range 128-255 but under standard shell these all come out as '?'s. Thanks Allan _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
