On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:31:28AM -0500, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
With mplayer (which I've just recently installed), I've had
better
stability (although it has crashed on inline movies), but I don't know
the extent of the formats that it can play.
It plays everything (assuming
you're ok with using proprietary codes
of course).
Have you checked out
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/?
You can simply drop win32 codecs into /usr/lib/win32 and it just works.
Also I haven't seen a
frontend to mplayer so far....I assume that one does exist.
Thoughts? Experiences?
All the skinnable media players make me want to gouge my
eyes out, without
exception. There's at least one front end for mplayer - gmplayer, but
I haven't used it. I'm perfectly comfortable with the command line
interface. Which is also extremely useful for automated dumping and
re-encoding of large numbers of files in proprietary format streamed
through proprietary protocols :-)
Cheers,
Arvind
--
Its all GNU to me