Re: [Sheflug] Video players

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Try xtheater (Xtheater.sourceforge.net). It seems pretty quick, and
supports mpg pretty well.

Also, xmovie or mtv (or mtvp, the GPL version)

HTH

Craig

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Harvey Kelly wrote:

> 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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