[kevler]

xine player still the best in playing any kind of movies and clips

[GroovyDude]

I prefer xine, but no matter what you use you will not be able to play commercial dvds unless you possess the decryption software.

[-8-]

Hi I found as a newbie that this problem is quite common. I found a page that may help people that were in my position.

http://cambuca.ldhs....uc-rio.br/xine/

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]

Use Xine (Not the bugged one) or Mplayer or DivX playa for linux.

[linuxwolf]

xine.... mplayer.... I don't like either. I use them, from time to time. But i plan on making my own compatible player.

[myth]

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]

Hmm, I am surprised that I did not see more of the following:

Ogle supports DVD Menu Options
http://www.dtek.chal....se/groups/dvd/

VLC is also a decent player that I actually use on my iBook but its cross platform
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[Travis]

VLC has my vote use it for windows as well