[CALUG] Replacement for Mplayer

[Jason C. Miller]

Thanks for the great recommendations everyone!

I'm one of the jokers who downloaded and installed FC5 the first day it 
was released.  I'm currently doing the whole trial-by-fire thing that one 
has to go through to install a new OS AND get all of his legacy apps and 
drivers working.  Everything from fenagling VMWare kernel object code, 
compiling ATI Radeon drivers that don't support the latest Xorg, 
installing older versions of shared libraries without conflicting with the 
new, etc etc.  

I love mplayer with a passion but, unfortunately, its maintenance cycle is 
tad broad (it still does a check for gcc 2.95 when you try to compile 
source - I can easily get around that but it still won't compile).  Of 
course, I add the RPMs that I used with FC4 and it STILL has issues.  

This is one of those things where I was tired after a long night of 
compiling and jury-rigging and just wanted to watch a video.  

The fun continues.  :)  



On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, william kelly wrote:

> VLC
> 
> 
> vlc is the best for playing just about anything. plus you can stream and
> multicast.
> 
> On 3/22/06, Jason C. Miller <jason.c.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What would this group recommend as a replacement for Mplayer (preferably
> > something with the same breadth-of-function)?
> > The things I've looked at on the web are nice, but not as robust.
> >
> >
> >
> > -jason
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