Mplayer works but...

[Karl Larsen]

Robin Laing wrote:
> Mladen Adamovic wrote:
>> Stephen Mirowski wrote:
>>
>>> Xine has been my choice for DVDs for a few years.  Then I add in 
>>> Gxine for casual videos (also can be used a plugin for browser).  
>>> Mplayer works best as a browser video plugin.
>>>
>> I also recommend Xine. I had problems with Mplayer on certain 
>> distros, but haven't any big problem with Xine so far. Mplayer 
>> sometimes don't work from repo, sometimes don't work from source, and 
>> sometimes it work but only from command line interface.
>>
>> I only had problems with some codec's Xine  does use - few times my 
>> computer freezed during playback. But I knew that does movies have 
>> codec's issue - the movies had coding bugs, lets say.
>>
>
> I also use xine and have found that there are some avi's/mpg's that 
> mplayer won't play.  I have also used vlc to play DVD's.
    I have never used Xine for anything but the backend of Totem. I find 
Totem does a fine job of bringing the DVD to Xine which then sends pure 
picture and sound to Totem which I watch on. I think Xine has problems 
when used alone.

73 Karl