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anjanesh 08-21-2006 11:00 PM
Media Player Classic for Linux
 
Hi

Im looking for a Linux version of Media Player Classic. Is there anything available ?

Thanks

drj000 08-22-2006 01:21 AM
Why? There are a perfectly good number of Media Players for Linux? Why use one that's intended for Windows?
The easy answer is no. The hard answer is, "It's GPL, so if you want it that bad, port it yourself, or find someone willing to port it."
Also, this has been asked on here before. Please use the search feature before you post a new thread. You'll save everyone some time.

fortezza 08-22-2006 01:23 AM
Nope. The developer only supports Windows, and that progam depends upon Windows components to work. There are plenty of media players for Linux to choose from, even ones that play most Windows media files.

greengrocer 08-22-2006 02:18 AM
Xine or VLC would be your best options for Multimedia players on the Linux platform.

Mplayer is another option, though a little more difficult to install than the aforementioned.

XMMS is also great for MP3 playback. It is much like earlier versions of Winamp before Nullsoft made Winamp into a piece of bloated crap.

Regards,
Greenie

anjanesh 08-22-2006 10:09 PM
Im looking for one that plays Google's gvi files. Media Player Classic plays gvi files (gvi seem to be divx) with no issues.

Linu.cks 08-22-2006 10:21 PM
If you must, it seems to partially work under WINE.

drj000 08-22-2006 10:45 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by anjanesh
Im looking for one that plays Google's gvi files. Media Player Classic plays gvi files (gvi seem to be divx) with no issues.
According to this website, a gvi file plays fine in vlc. There's a .Net program (which will probably work on Linux under mono) here that will convert a gvi to a regular avi, or, according to the aforementioned site, you can use the following perl script to convert a gvi to an avi file:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use File::Format::RIFF;

my ( $riff1 ) = File::Format::RIFF->read( \*STDIN );
$riff1->shift();
$riff1->write( \*STDOUT );
I'm no perl writer, but based on that code, I'd bet you'd use it like this: "gvi2avi.pl < file.gvi > file.avi"

fortezza 08-22-2006 11:24 PM
Mplayer Plugin
 
I've watched YouTube, Google Vidz, etc using the mplayer browser plugin. So far I haven't come across anything it will not play. If you have the yum package manager with the Livna repository, you can type

yum install mplayer mplayerplug-in


to install both and try it out.

drj000 08-23-2006 12:29 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by fortezza
I've watched YouTube, Google Vidz, etc using the mplayer browser plugin.
anjanesh is talking about videos downloaded from Google Video (the DRMed ones, not the regular AVIs), not those viewed in the browser (which one can view with the Flash plguin).

anjanesh 08-23-2006 04:14 AM
Thats correct drj00. I got a bunch of gvi files which I downloaded on my Windows PC but I got to view them on a Linux (RH EL4) machine which is not connected to the internet.

Let me check out vlc.

operator10001 09-01-2006 07:37 PM
try helix. You might like it

juanjavier_xxx 12-06-2011 10:57 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by drj000 (Post 2389832)
Why? There are a perfectly good number of Media Players for Linux?
---None of them have got the frame-scaling and positioning capabilities that Mediaplayer Classic have. You can scale and displace the frame along the screen, useful for projectors whose projected frame dimension exceeds that of the screen where they project.

TB0ne 12-06-2011 11:16 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by juanjavier_xxx (Post 4543550)
---None of them have got the frame-scaling and positioning capabilities that Mediaplayer Classic have. You can scale and displace the frame along the screen, useful for projectors whose projected frame dimension exceeds that of the screen where they project.
Uhh....you do realize that this thread is FIVE YEARS OLD, right? That Linux media players have come a good way since then?

Unhackable 03-14-2018 04:54 PM
Somebody has ported it over...
 
In case you still can't find a port, rcf014 has thankfully ported Media Player Classic and you can now use it on Linux!! Download link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-le/

Mill J 03-14-2018 06:52 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Unhackable (Post 5831016)
In case you still can't find a port, rcf014 has thankfully ported Media Player Classic and you can now use it on Linux!! Download link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-le/
Cool, could you post a screenshot of it running on Linux?

To me it doesn't look to healthy. I mean. pre alpha, seriously? no update to the code since 2011 and no update to the sourceforge page for 3 years.

Of course on top of that, resurrecting old threads is frowned upon here at LQ.


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