Media Player

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 09:27 -0700, Shawn Christopher wrote:
> Ok, now I see what everyone means when they say the dreaded Totem
> player. 

It's not the dreaded Totem, it's the dreaded (but promising) new backend
to Totem, gstreamer

> Is there any media players out there that will read universally
> any media content (Real Player, Quicktime, .AVI?) 

Totem (if you use the xine backend, totem-xine), xine, and mplayer will,
if you install w32codecs and libdvdcss2 from Marillat's site. Note that
this may be illegal in some jurisdictions.

See http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats for instruction.

VLC is another good choice, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Let me add that the solutions mentioned above are _much better than
anything you can get under Windows. Windows MediaPlayer will not play
Quicktime. Heck, not even Quicktime for Windows plays older mov files I
can watch under Linus without problem. MediaPlayer will not play avi
files that were encoded with DivX unless you hunt down and install the
DivX codecs manually. Etc.

> I tried viewing the
> video from the SUN web page about making Linux 3D and it's in a format a
> linux user can use ::scoff:: what is that all about?