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Old 02-06-2006, 08:08 PM   #1
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Alternative to xine...


I need something other than xine to stream videos and sound online that use .avi or .wmp extensions, let alone any type of file.

Xine's interface is incredibly annoying to me and I would like something that is pre compiled for Slack so I can just give the sh -i installation command and not have to worry about anything else as I don't have the time to mess with it now.

Thanks in advance.
 
Old 02-06-2006, 08:11 PM   #2
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You should check out mplayer and vcl. There are also other front ends for xine.

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Old 02-06-2006, 09:07 PM   #3
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mplayer is great and fairly stable, even if it never leaves beta. only problem is codecs. make sure to get MAD and MPEG and mpg123 that wya you can paly almsot anyhting.
 
Old 02-06-2006, 09:10 PM   #4
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vlc is great for me, it's got a beautiful clean interface. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
 
Old 02-06-2006, 10:33 PM   #5
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i jsut cant get it to work ncie on suse 10, wont isntall and keeps saying it has probs with kssh
 
Old 02-06-2006, 10:40 PM   #6
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I am assuming there are no precompiled versions of vlc or mplayer for Slackware, eh?
 
Old 02-06-2006, 10:41 PM   #7
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ohhhh, i dont got a clue, i am a suse and fedora man myself, pure RPM and APT-GET for me........
 
Old 02-07-2006, 12:18 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by moosegoose
I am assuming there are no precompiled versions of vlc or mplayer for Slackware, eh?
Au contraire... there are.
 
Old 02-07-2006, 05:37 PM   #9
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Sweetness, I now have VLC and MPlayer installed. However, I still need to stream things and I deleted my xine plugin to Firefox...does MPlayer have any plugins for Firefox so I can view/hear movies and music?
 
Old 02-07-2006, 06:05 PM   #10
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mplayerplugin at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerplug-in
 
Old 02-07-2006, 06:37 PM   #11
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VLC also has a FireFox plugin, though I have never managed to compile it...
 
Old 02-08-2006, 12:51 PM   #12
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Quote:
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vlc is great for me, it's got a beautiful clean interface. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
I love VLC on the Windows machines I'm forced to use, but I'll be damned if I can get VLC to compile and run on Slack with the complete set of codecs. I've tried Slack 9.1, 10, 10.1 and 10.2 and something always goes awry. The closest I've gotten is everything working except for FFmpeg and frankly, it isn't much of a media player without it.

So for now, I'm using MPlayer.

If anyone can point me to a good tutorial or perhaps a complete slackpack with all the codecs compiled in (yeah, I know, not likely), I would apprciate it.

Last edited by Crashbox; 02-08-2006 at 12:53 PM.
 
Old 02-08-2006, 01:07 PM   #13
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If using mplayer plugin please be aware that it interferes with realplayer plugin so(like for bbc and wbgo jazz radio) if you need realplayer plugin function you will need to edit mplayer plugin file to comment out its realplayer "plugin" part. Do LQ search for said problem if it is pertinent. Enjoy your mplayer.
 
Old 02-08-2006, 02:42 PM   #14
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If anyone can point me to a good tutorial or perhaps a complete slackpack with all the codecs compiled in (yeah, I know, not likely), I would apprciate it.
Here it is http://jmccoy.sdf-us.org/linux/multimedia.php
This is a little bit outdated but it also works if you want to compile everything.

This is what I did:
Get all the needed available packages from linuxpackages.net, the ones that Ken Zalewski build (not sure 'bout the correct spelling of the name). The ones that are missing you have to compile yourself. Use the home page of VLC to see what you need. This is what I did on a 10.2 stock system. Then I compiled VLC with all possible options and dependencies. It works perfectly well. And don't use the latest version of VLC, get 0.82. I couldn't compile 0.84a, it always gave me some error.

I don't like mplayer at all. It loads my processor (2.4GHz P4) too much, it's not stable enough. I use xine extensively. If it can't play anything I use VLC. In my opinion VLC is the best player ever. It has so many tweaks and plays all formats.

Last edited by KingOfDreams; 02-08-2006 at 02:46 PM.
 
Old 02-15-2006, 05:54 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by moosegoose
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Xine's interface is incredibly annoying to me
[...]
Thanks in advance.
If it is mainly the UI you don't like about Xine, but the functionality is ok with you, you might try Kaffeine. It is available from LinuxPackages.net as a Slackware package.

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