[NCLUG] video

[Daniel Miles]

I use xine, I love it :)

On 17 Jan 2002 19:09:43 -0700
Brian Stanback <brian at stanback.net> wrote:

> I would definetly go for mplayer. It currently supports mpeg, qt, mov,
> avi, and uses some code from Winde, I believe, to play w32 codecs. I
> have been using it for a while now and the gui seems pretty functional,
> although I usually prefer using the keyboard. 
> 
> I also have DVD support working as well. Some things I like about it
> are:
> 
> - Divx ;-) Support!
> - Video rendering via Xv (super fast) or directfb:dga (fast)
> - 16:9 scaling, so I can get highter resolution on my TV (s-video)
> 
> I have also tried Xine in the past and it seemed to work well for me.
> 
> I think ffmpeg might also allow you to play qt and mov files along with
> moeg files but I really don't know what I am talking about.
> 
> You are using Qtopia on you ipaq right? I haven't actually tried playing
> an mpeg with it - but I have noticed some sort of memory leak when
> playing mp3s.
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 17:14, William Dan Terry wrote:
> > Any suggestions for video player apps? I want to play mpeg, qt and mov on
> > my Linux box. I've got Gnome on X. I've been looking around. Some of the
> > options that sound good (at linux.org and gnome.org) don't have working
> > links. So I thought I'd get suggestions. Funny thing is that I can play
> > mpegs on my ipaq running linux (not X so I can't use the same app), but am
> > not finding obvious desktop options.
> > 
> > TIA, William
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