From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 17:46:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2411516A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:46:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A48643D1F for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:46:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j15HkcoJ004020; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j15HkdLW000735; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j15HkcbX000734; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:46:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:46:38 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: "Loren M. Lang" Message-ID: <20050205174638.GA637@thought.org> References: <20050205065704.GJ8619@alzatex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050205065704.GJ8619@alzatex.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gert Cuykens cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: media players X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:46:44 -0000 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? ) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix