Mplayer and Kaffeine

_UnPrEdictAbLe_ · 10-16-2004, 12:28 AM

Hi,

I use FC2 with KDE 3.2.

I was using mplayer till now (latest)...
Some days back I tried kaffeine... and liked it...

But I think the spectrum of media formats supported by mplayer is larger than kaffeine....

To wht extent is it true... and where can i find plugins to make kaffeine support more formats???

regards
unpredictable

reddazz · 10-16-2004, 12:40 AM

I don't think thats entirely true because Kaffeine is based on Xine and as long as you have the right codecs installed it'll play the same formats as mplayer.

anupamsr · 11-09-2004, 08:56 AM

Well, xine has problems with DAT files.

xine also has a poor playlist management.

ps: sorry for posting in old thread. i got here though google.

_UnPrEdictAbLe_ · 11-11-2004, 10:37 PM

Hi,

I am having problems in playing some AVI and MPG files through Kaffeine. Finally, I have to use Mplayer for playing those. Is there a package to enhance the codecs of Xine ??

regards
unpredictable

reddazz · 11-12-2004, 03:26 AM

download the latest xine-lib and w32codec pack from the xine nightly page .

JARofHERB · 11-13-2004, 03:55 PM

you can go to mplayers web site and snag the essential codec pack for linux.Untar them into youre /usr/lib/win32 folder,its the folder that xine/kaffeine/totem uses by default for there codecs.Youll have to be root to write to the folder though,,it works great for most..I wish more people knew that xine and its derivitives can use mplayer codecs..

JARofHERB · 11-13-2004, 03:57 PM

Or what reddazz said..