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Media player for linux

  • 07-02-2005 10:51am
    #1
    themarcus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭


    Can anyone recomend a good player for mpeg movies and so on for linux? I have Kafeine at the moment but it refuses to play about half of my vids........


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  • #2
    RE*AC*TOR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,482 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    try noatun

    or vlc media player


  • #3
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,084 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Mplayer and its various graphical front ends are great.

    The other one I use is Totem a graphical front end to Xine


  • #4
    parasite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,077 ✭✭✭parasite


    couldn't recommend mplayer strongly enough, it plays pretty much any broken crap you throw at it and has a bewildering array of options


  • #5
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,738 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Definitely mplayer. Xine is also decent, but mplayer can handle everything - quicktime, realplayer content, MMS video clips...


  • #6
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,084 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    I often use Mplayer to preview Bittorrent downloads as it's so good on corrupt files it can even play a partially downloaded torrent to some extent.


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  • #7
    Syth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,865 ✭✭✭Syth


    Stark wrote:
    I often use Mplayer to preview Bittorrent downloads as it's so good on corrupt files it can even play a partially downloaded torrent to some extent.
    Yeah it's relly funny when it does that.

    MPlayer definity.


  • #8
    Syth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,865 ✭✭✭Syth


    One funny thing mplayer can do is to play a file (or DVD or whatever) as ASCII! Try it with mplayer -vo aa <file>. It's hilarious!


  • #9
    tck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭tck


    mplayer is also good for snagging streaming types such as rtsp etc..


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