[Sheflug] Video players

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] clara.co.uk>]

Hello all,

The Independent yesterday gave away (and I'm very grateful to them) some
Nick Cave things.  Some videos and mp3s.

I tried playing the .mpg files with aKtion.  No joy.  Now I've never tried
playing anything like that with Linux - but I thought aKtion should've
been able to handle it.  It takes an age to load any of the files (I've
copied them to $HOME), and at best I got a very shaky, poorly defined
image and absolutely no audio.  I logged back in and used KDE2 - KDE Media
Player and it plays perfectly.  Everything.  Logged out and went back into
Enlightenment, and from an xterm ran < noatun >

This is what I get:

	connect() failed : No such file or directory
	KCrash: crashing.... crashRecursionCounter = 2
	KCrash: Application Name = noatun path = <unknown>

and then the KDE Crash handler screen thingy comes up.  I tried running
< noatun nickcavefilm.mpg > but the same thing happened.

Two questions: how can I run KDE Media Player in E.  And what are all you
Gnome uses to view this kind of thing?

Thanks

Harvey

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