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#1 User is offline   manu 

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Posted 13 September 2003 - 06:52 AM

Hi

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..!!

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#2 User is offline   thatsmej 

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Posted 13 September 2003 - 07:46 AM

mplayer does the trick!

rpmfind

cant access the real page of mplayer.. but the rpm should work ;)
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Posted 13 September 2003 - 09:08 AM

Yup, definatly recommend MPlayer! The site is up, but they just have a patents warning on the main page, the link is at the bottom of the screen.

Heres a link to the download site, just in case that rpm doesnt work out for you
http://www.mplayerhq...ign6/dload.html

Hope it helps, and enjoy! :D
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Posted 13 September 2003 - 12:33 PM

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.


http://www.geexbox.org/
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Posted 04 October 2003 - 10:24 PM

Dillinja, MPLAYER is working pretty cool.. Thanks a lot..
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Posted 05 October 2003 - 12:43 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.

http://xine.sourceforge.net

Thank you for your time.
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Posted 14 October 2003 - 08:37 AM

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).
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Posted 06 March 2004 - 12:36 AM

i prefer mplayer as well, but the normal mplayer doesnt 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
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Posted 10 March 2004 - 09:31 PM

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 ,
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Posted 11 March 2004 - 09:05 AM

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" ;)
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Posted 22 March 2004 - 10:33 AM

mplayer rocks! and xmms for sound.
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Posted 22 March 2004 - 10:35 AM

Mplayer is the one!

take a look at this one too:
http://movix.sourceforge.net/
a bootable linux mplayer
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Posted 01 April 2004 - 04:30 PM

i would recommend Xine aswell, lots of nice features and seems there isnt as much slowdown in fullscreen than the other programs :)
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Posted 18 April 2004 - 01:35 PM

I also use xine, I like it better than mplayer.
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Posted 23 April 2004 - 11:30 AM

xine is way better than mplayer
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