Media Distro

aethiolas · 04-06-2005, 03:56 PM

I love what I've done with linux however so far I've had issues with videos. I can easily get MPEGs to play however sometimes I can get AVIs to play and sometimes not. I've yet to get a player to play WMVs at all. Can anyone recommend a distro that works great for multimedia? I'm technically a newb but can work through most problems pretty easily and installation is not an issue. I'm using SuSe 9.2 right now and I chose everything under media stil I have these issues. Any help would be recommended. Thanks!

wapcaplet · 04-06-2005, 04:32 PM

You don't need a whole new distribution for that; just try using a different media player. mplayer is probably the best at handling many different formats.

reddazz · 04-06-2005, 05:02 PM

You don't even need a new player you just need extra codecs. You can download an rpm for win32 codecs from the xine nightly builds page. To play encrypted commercial dvds, download and install libdvdcss from the same site.

DAChristen29 · 04-06-2005, 07:50 PM

yeah, multimedia has been a big thing for me, since i mainly do video editing. for video editing and playing. so far, linux is advancing in the video players, but for editing software, linux is still lacking. the only good editors only export to large crappy codecs.