Re: [Sheflug] Video players

[Andrew Basterfield <nospam [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>]

Try xine - gpl'd and plays just about everything if you can get the 
win32 codec dlls (does .mpg & VCD as standard though). I forget the 
homepage (maybe www.xine.org?) but a quick search should find it. IMHO 
Anything KDE2 seems to be a memory hog & crashes lots...


Harvey Kelly wrote:

> 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.



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