RE: [Nolug] media players

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf Of Mark A. Hershberger
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:01 AM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] media players
>
>
> "Petri Laihonen" <pietu@weblizards.net> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, xine, mplayer, and vlc are all able to use
> Windows DLLs to play codecs that aren't publicly available. For
> instance, the w32codecs is a Debian package with the following
> description:
>
> This package contain video codecs for libaviplay.
>
> ATI VCR-2 video codec.
> Cinepak video codec
> DivX ;-) video codec, ver. 3.11
> DivX ;-) video codec, ver. 4.x
> Indeo Video 3.2/4.1/5.0/4.1 quick/5.0 quick codecs.
> Intel 263 video codec.
> Microsoft MPEG-4 video codec, beta version 3.0.0.2700
> Morgan Multimedia Motion JPEG video codec.
> QuickTime
> RealAudio
> RealVideo 8
> RealVideo 9
> Windows Media Video 9
>
> And more...
>
>
> Mark.
>

That looks like a very good package!
Time to start hunting for it (or similar) to other distros as well.....

P

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