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Re: Media player software for linux?



The best player I saw so far was mplayer but I couldn't where its gui is..


Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Alex Shnitman wrote:

> Hi, ishaybas!
> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:52:35PM +0300, you wrote the following:
> 
> > I am looking for a media player software for linux which will support MPG,
> > AVI as a must, and ASF, MOVas a big plus. 
> > Also I need it to have a builtin playlist as a must and forward/backward skip
> > bar in the movie itself.
> > Full screen is a big advantage too.
> 
> I think XMMS can fill the bill quite well. It's got plugins to handle
> most of those video formats (for MPEG it's got the SDL plugin and for
> AVI and ASF it's got a plugin that uses the aviplay library; as to
> MOV, if you're referring to QuickTime, I don't think it's supported at
> all on Linux, at least not the Sorensen codec which is used by most
> QuickTime movies on the net right now). The plugins support
> full-screen operation (may require Xv and/or DGA from the X server).
> And of course it has playlists and all that.
> 
> 
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