| sean finney on 6 Aug 2006 01:23:32 -0000 |
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 06:46:07PM -0400, Mike Leone wrote: > >You might want to try VLC for video under linux, it's quite good. > > Doesn't automatically work with the videos I'm trying to watch; doesn't > have the right codec. i find this is often the case, which is too bad because i really like the program. it also comes on windows and os x, which is a bonus. it'd be really cool if there were a way to get vlc to work with an installed w32codecs package, but i've never been able to figure that out. mplayer(+w32codecs) usually plays the files that vlc can't, but the code is really buggy and runs like a slug on less-than-modern systems (especially w/out hardware acceleration). the lack of an official debian package is also sad, but that's as much debian's fault as it is mplayer's. i've tried a couple other players as well, though none come close to either of the above. i haven't even gotten totem to work on anything at all (which was really annoying since it's the default player in ubuntu), and kde's noatun did nothing but crash the last time i tried. so in summary i use vlc for dvd's, vcd's and formats that i know to work, and mplayer for anything else. the mozilla-mplayer plugin is also convenient for web browsing, though again the code is kinda shoddy and not exactly full-featured. sean Attachment:
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