Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:46:38 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: media players Message-ID: <20050205174638.GA637@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050205065704.GJ8619@alzatex.com> References: <ef60af09050203091546136dce@mail.gmail.com> <20050205065704.GJ8619@alzatex.com>
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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
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