I have installed Redhat Linux 9.0 in my System, Could anybody please tell me which tool or application I can use to play movies ( Any format ).. Is there any links to download RPMs for it, Please help me..!!
Even cooler yet, if you have any old pc's that when using linux + mplayer kinda lag in video but not sound. this is due to processor usaeg, memory etc. i recomend geexbox, which is a very stripped linux based on mplayer and its bootable from cd. I was able to play divx/xvid/wma movies on a 266 mhz pentium 2, 192 mb ram, 8 gb hd, 24x cdrom. I played all my movies FULL screen stretched out and there was no skipping, whatsoever.
Dillinja, MPLAYER is working pretty cool.. Thanks a lot..
shaun2k2
Oct 5 2003, 08:43 AM
I use and like Xine.
A few vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer recently. Although they may have been patched, it might spell out that there is more to come, because of general bad coding practices implemented into the code. I don't think Xine has had any flaws discovered. You might want to check it out.
A very good combination along with xine is XMMS it looks like our favourite winamp and has many great features. It can also play mpeg video files(i think a plugin is required).
rockerx
Mar 6 2004, 08:36 AM
i prefer mplayer as well, but the normal mplayer doesn´t come along with that much codecs especially those windows ones. But there is a nice package called mplayer-suite it contains almost every codec and plugin u might want to use.
hav´ phun
xlulux
Mar 11 2004, 05:31 AM
i recommend mplayer , totem, and xine. xine worked great for alll wvm that i wanted to play and mplayer never let me down with .avi, btw does anyone know how to play encrytped .wmv files on xine without having to pay for them (aka paris hilton) alrigh guys use those
ps totem is for mandrake i think but should work for redhat if modded a little ,
cornstalk
Mar 11 2004, 05:05 PM
Totem is not only for Mandrake, it is a gnome movie player for all kind of linux ( and unix-like ) systems. I use MPlayer and only sometimes Xine, though Xine is better coded.. but as Torvalds would say: "Well... it works"
From memory - it talks you through installing xine with all the codecs you will need. (i haven't found a format that I can't play, played .avi, .mpeg, dvds, vcds, xvids, divx pretty much the whole bunch.
I find xine to remind me of PowerDVD, I dunno if anyone else feels the same way... And Mplayer sort of (forgive my comparisions) reminds me of windows media player (but a linux version). (Just going by the GUI and way you use it).
I use xine (my incredibly lame excuse follows) because it was easy to install (see one poor excuse).
Regards people,
Hope this helps some ppl
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K-C0d3r
Feb 24 2005, 10:13 PM
Use Xine (Not the bugged one) or Mplayer or DivX playa for linux.
linuxwolf
Feb 25 2005, 01:26 PM
xine.... mplayer.... I don't like either. I use them, from time to time. But i plan on making my own compatible player.
myth
Feb 26 2005, 04:39 AM
i cannot believe no-one has mentioned VLC
VLC is better than all listed here. its comes wiht its own list of libraries (havent found a file not playable so far) of video and audio streams, can play almost any media (DVD, ISO, etc) in any combination (DVD-nosubmenus, Watch a stream) and you can also stream the media being played onto the network in around 8 different formats....
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Description: multimedia player for all audio and video formats VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimedia streams from various network sources. . VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP. . VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional audio plugins (vlc-plugin-esd, vlc-plugin-alsa, vlc-plugin-arts) or video plugins (vlc-plugin-sdl, vlc-plugin-ggi, vlc-plugin-glide, vlc-plugin-svgalib). There is also a web browser plugin in the mozilla-plugin-vlc package.
easy config, many options, cross-platform .... you cant go wrong (windows build is just as good), a must for atleast a last resort
shirkdog
Mar 18 2005, 04:09 PM
Hmm, I am surprised that I did not see more of the following:
