Re: [Nolug] media players

From: Petri Laihonen <pietu_at_weblizards.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:17:17 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <1888.68.14.52.165.1093965437.squirrel@68.14.52.165>

How are video codecs handled in linux?

I've now tried few players, and none of them seem to be able to play most
of my .avi and .mpg files. In the end, any player should be able to play
any files as long as there is a codec available for the video format.

P

>
> Another player is vlc. kvlc is the KDE frontend for vlc. There is
> also a mozilla plugin for vlc.
>
> The four players I know of are:
>
> vlc
> mplayer
> xine
> gstreamer
>
> I've had the least luck with gstreamer, but each of the above media
> player systems has a multiple frontends for both Gnome and KDE.
>
> --
> A choice between one man and a shovel, or a dozen men with teaspoons
> is clear to me, and I'm sure it is clear to you also.
> -- Zimran Ahmed <http://www.winterspeak.com/>
>

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