Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Steve Jeppesen wrote: > I use both Totum and MPlayer to play dvd's with no problems at all. > MythTV's internal DVD player has gotten really good, too. It's not worth installing the whole Myth frontend just for playing DVDs, but if you've got it already you might want to try the mythdvd plugin

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-04 Thread Clayton
xine and Kaffeine and vlc and mplayer & co are all installed in my systems but still there are videos that require windoze for viewing... it must be a conspiracy to counter libdvdcss... Really? I'm curious what videos won't play? The only videos I cannot view in Linux with MPlayer are videos w

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread kanenas
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/04/03 08:36 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> On 2007/04/03 07:45 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: > >>> Felix Miata wrote: > vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and switch > the equalizer

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/04/03 08:36 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> On 2007/04/03 07:45 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: >>> Felix Miata wrote: vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and switch the equalizer on and off. >>> To view >>> your dvd select File/Op

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:27:44 -0400 Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thoroughly displeased with Kaffeine, so upon seeing this > thread I immediately installed vlc. 10.2/packman/guru installation > seemed to go normally, but vlc refuses to do anything other than > open, close, and

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/04/03 07:45 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: > > >> Felix Miata wrote: >> > > >>> vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and switch >>> the equalizer on and off. >>> > > >> To view >> your dvd select File/Open Disc. Make sure your dvd

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/04/03 07:45 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and switch >> the equalizer on and off. > To view > your dvd select File/Open Disc. Make sure your dvd player is in the > Customize box under Advanced Options and cl

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Hudibras
El mar, 03-04-2007 a las 08:27 -0400, Felix Miata escribió: > On 2007/04/03 03:03 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: > > > 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

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Hudibras wrote: > El mar, 03-04-2007 a las 06:55 -0500, dwain escribió: > >> Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >>> The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 04:50 -0500, dwain wrote: >>> >>> > > Vlc is a very great multimedia player, maybe the best one. I can play > all type of files, and it never complains at

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 06:55 -0500, dwain wrote: > I appreciate the recommendation of xine though. Welcome. We each have our preferred apps. :-) By the way, xine also finds the needed codec automatically, if it is in the system; if it is not, p

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/04/03 03:03 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: > > >> 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

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Jan Tiggy
dwain wrote: > But I'm not interested in a multimedia program flame war. We all have > our preferences and use what works for us. Some like Koffice and others > like Open Office. Some like xine, others Mplayer and I have found that > VLC meets my needs. I guess that's what it's all about. Windows

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/04/03 03:03 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: > 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 y

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Hudibras
El mar, 03-04-2007 a las 06:55 -0500, dwain escribió: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > > The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 04:50 -0500, dwain wrote: > > Vlc is a very great multimedia player, maybe the best one. I can play all type of files, and it never complains at all. Xine engine is good, but not great;

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 04:50 -0500, dwain wrote: > > > I'll have to try mplayer then. > > You can also try xine - with the added benefit that kafeine and amarok > (and more) use the xine-lib engine. > Well, i tried Mplayer and I couldn't get it to work. As with Jan, who h

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 04:50 -0500, dwain wrote: > I'll have to try mplayer then. You can also try xine - with the added benefit that kafeine and amarok (and more) use the xine-lib engine. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
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 o

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 4/3/07, Jan Tiggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. E

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Mark Goldstein wrote: > On 4/3/07, Jan Tiggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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;

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Jan Tiggy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 cod

[opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
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 go