[tlug] Re: Linux Windows Media Player Protocal not supported?!!!

[Tobias Diedrich <td@example.com>]

Nguyen Hung Takeshi wrote:

> xine is good too as it can play DVD (!) VCD and asf file.

From the mplayer man-page:

|DESCRIPTION
|       mplayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs  on  many  other
|       Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). It plays
|       most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI,  RM,
|       NuppelVideo,  yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files, supported by many
|       native,  XAnim,  and  Win32  DLL  codecs.  You  can  watch
|       VideoCD,  SVCD,  DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies
|       too (and you don't need the avifile library at all!).
|
|       Another big feature of mplayer is the wide range  of  sup­
|       ported  output  drivers.   It  works  with  X11,  Xv, DGA,
|       OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you  can  use
|       GGI,  SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every
|       VESA compatible card, even without X!) and  some  lowlevel
|       card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too!
|       Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you
|       can enjoy movies in fullscreen.  MPlayer supports display­
|       ing through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the
|       Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+!

IMHO mplayer is the best linux media player, and it does not even need a
GUI :-) (But you can compile one in if you want)
Of course it has its shortcomings too.

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Tobias								PGP: 0x9AC7E0BC