Linux media player

[sedawk]

I am looking for a media player for my Linux desktop. Can someone recommend a good media player in Linux (Fedora 3) that can be on par with Windows Media Player? That means the player can open almost all video file formats.

Thanks.

 

[stefanwagner]

Mediaplayers I know are xine (gxine on gnome) and totem.
I can't compare them to Windows Media Player, because I don't know it.
I know you need some plugins for different encodings.

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[zeland]

mplayer + essential codec pack plays everything I've thrown at it so far.


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[sedawk]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Before I see your post, I tried to install VLC on FC3 but not successfully. Anyone can help? Basically I am stuck with the dependencies. The instructions on their website is useless.

 

[pansophic]

sedawk,

I would recommend that you give up on VLC and just download the xine RPM with DVD decompression built in. As I recall, it also has AVI readers bundled as well.

I've worked with VLC before and gotten it to work, but you will spend a great deal of time downloading packages so that you can find out what dependencies that package needs, just to do it again for the next package. Or you can just install "Everything" using Fedora's RPM manager.


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[sedawk]

Pansophic,

Thanks for your advice. I had similar experience as you had in downloading VLC packages. It was not fun. However, I found an apt (Synatic) installation which made the VLC installation just in seconds. It plays well now.

Thanks again.

 

[pansophic]

Excellent! I'm glad to hear that they have improved the process. I'm not much of a multimedia guy, so I generally have very little in the way of sound or video installed on my systems, but I do like to watch the occasional DVD.

Was there something in particular the VLC provides that you were looking for over xine, totem or mplayer?


pansophic

 

[sedawk]

Hello Pansophic,

VLC can play some rare video formats like *.cue and *.bin file. Even though I, pretty much like you, am little of multimedia, one file just received needs a player can play this format. I don't think xine and totem can play while not sure mplayer. Also since it is a cross-platform player so it is not distant in use comparing XP environment.

S.