Re: [Sheflug] Video players

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

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:

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

Yeah, it's pretty good - crashed a few times when I opened videos whilst
another is still playing.
>
> Also, xmovie or mtv (or mtvp, the GPL version)

Mmm.  Didn't really xmovie's garish looks:  xtheater is much cleaner - I
like it.

Thanks

Harvey

>
> 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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