I also like vlc. Some files will play better in one program while others work in another. I keep vlc, mplayer, xanim and xine around.
BTW, keep in mind that many mov files you find will be encoded in a quicktime format that is proprietary and unavailable on Linux. Unless somebody else knows something new that I haven't heard yet... Bob On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:36:38PM -0500, Sean wrote: > On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 10:04, Balazs Javor wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What is the best solution on linux to play most > > movie formats? (doesn't need to be a single app) > > > > I've been slowly trying to be able to perform most task on > > my Woody box that I used to do on Window$. But I'm still > > struggling a bit with playing various multimedia files. > > > > I would like to be able to play any downloaded > > avi, mpg, asf, mov, vob and divx 3 and 4 files if possible... > > > > I've tried aviplay but with little success. On some files > > there was sound but no picture (or garbled picture). > > And allthough it says it should be able to play asf it didn't > > seem to work for me either. > > (I've read the readme according to which additional codecs might be > > needed, but as far as I can tell I've installed all plugins, and > > they seem to contain all the mentioned codecs.) > > > > I would be most greatfull for suggestions regarding what's the > > most effective way to play the above mentioned formats! > > > > Many thanks for your help in advance! > > best regards, > > Balazs > > As many others have mentioned, mplayer is what I like the best by far. I > would suggest grabbing the latest CVS, I've never had a problem with it > not building. With mplayer you also get mencoder if you want to rip DVDs > to avi, or whatever. Oh, and it's also skinnable. I like the neutron > skin the best at the moment. > > I would also mention that you stay far away from precompiled version of > mplayer, it is really designed to be compiled from scratch on the > machine it's running on. > > My 2c. > > Sean > > -- > > GPG Public Key available: http://sean.gutenpress.org/sean.asc >
