Media player recomendations

Tla-soul · 01-23-2005, 10:45 AM

Hey, I need to play .avi files, but Fedora core 3 dosent intially support them. I have tried installing xmms but it sais I need GLIB, which I attempted to install, but xmms still will not install. I also installed xine, and it claimed to install, but I can not find where to run it.
Does anyone know how to make xmms or xine work, or can anyone recommend a better player?

Thanks!

rtspitz · 01-23-2005, 11:17 AM

if installed from source it usually resides in /usr/local/bin

Tla-soul · 01-23-2005, 12:03 PM

xine is not there (although some GLIB stuff is) there is an xine-config file there, but opening it does nothing. Any other suggestions?

rtspitz · 01-23-2005, 01:35 PM

hmmm. so at least some of it is there, the least important stuff tho.

did the configure script complain about missing libraries ?

did you do ' make install ' as root ?

sh1ft · 01-23-2005, 02:16 PM

mplayer? install mplayer and its codec pack, it will play anything you throw at it.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

sehh · 01-23-2005, 02:24 PM

Indeed, mplayer is the best.

I suggest you download the already-made rpm packages from http://freshrpms.net

If you use yup or apt, freshrpms also has a fully working repository, which helps
install mplayer (lots of package dependencies).

prj · 01-23-2005, 02:26 PM

Check this out as well:

VideoLanClient

Very easy to install

Tla-soul · 01-23-2005, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rtspitz
hmmm. so at least some of it is there, the least important stuff tho.

>did the configure script complain about missing libraries ?

not that I noticed, but it might have.

>did you do ' make install ' as root ?

yes I did

cyborg_jt · 01-23-2005, 08:56 PM

I liked mplayer untill the point where it stuffed up on me. The top half of the gui dissappeared and messed everything about it up. Everything I tried to correct it. Was force to move to Xine
http://xinehq.de/