Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:18:27 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: media players Message-ID: <20050206111827.GR8619@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050205174638.GA637@thought.org> References: <ef60af09050203091546136dce@mail.gmail.com> <20050205065704.GJ8619@alzatex.com> <20050205174638.GA637@thought.org>
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:46:38AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:57:04PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:15:18PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> > > I am looking for a media player that supports the oss sound driver,
> > > easy to install codex, and uses the gtk2 libs ?
> >
> > xine is by far my favorite media app and has the best support for
> > playing dvds with menus. It can use win32 codecs pretty well too. It
> > doesn't use gtk2, but still has a very nice gui. mplayer is also pretty
> > good, it can play dvds, but no real menu support that I've seen and
> > win32 codecs also work. It has a gtk2 gui, but I think it's horrible.
> > I use just it's plain window interface and just use keyboard shortcuts
> > to control it.
> >
>
> Can you (or anyone!) clue me in on how xine works?
> Apps like RealPlayer just-work{TM}; mplayer has no
> Quit button; xine looks lke something from Pluto.
>
> (Does xine work with links? netscapr7? )
Just hit q in mplayer to quit. Plain old mplayer doesn't have any kind
of gui besides the video window and is completely controlled through the
keyboard and/or command-line options. There is a gui version called
gmplayer, but I really don't like it. It's just too buggy. xine works
like pretty much any other video player program, but some of the skins I
think are harder to identify the buttons. My favorite skin is xinetic,
which is usually the default. Try man xine and man mplayer for more
info.
>
> gary
>
>
>
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