xine or mplayer???
I am looking for a piece of software that will play video on my linux boxes. I think the popular two are xine and mplayer, which one is better?
I tried to install both of them, looking for required libs is suck a pain in the a$$. Any one knows where i can just donwload a rpm that contains everything (gui, codec, fonts, blah, blah) ? Thanks. |
Xine supports DVD menus. Mplayer has a load of codecs (win32 codecs) that allow it to be a dvd player, audio player, realplayer, etc etc.
Try them both. The beauty of Linux is that you have that choice. Since you are using RH9, I would suggest loading apt4rpm and installing through that, it will resolve dependencies for you. |
how to use / what is apt4rpm?apt4rpm
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Apt4Rpm is a version of Debian's apt package management tool ported to rpm based distros. Basically, in a command line (as root) you would just type in
Code:
apt-get install xine I would also suggest running Code:
apt-get install synaptic |
this is the results after i typed in command
[root@ximian Download]# apt-get install xine Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package xine what did i do wrong? |
I think you first need to do apt-get update
this should update all of the package that are available. You will want to di this on a regular basis. |
thanx, that's exactly what i needed to do
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Hi,
is there any "easy-to-install" dvd player? just click on go? :D is this too much to ask? Neelam |
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