[olug] Linux Media Player

[Jon]

ogle is light weight and the menus are very cool but the sound is very out of sync if your card doesn't support 48hz audio.  There is a project to get menu support into xine.  I am thinking that will probably become the standard in the near future.

-Jon W

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 07:21:18PM -0500, tetherow at nol.org wrote:
> xine complete (I haven't tried doing the addons myself to stock xine)
> mplayer
> ogle (haven't tried it but it was recommended)
> omi  (The livid player)
> 
> I have had varying success with each on different machines.  At home
> which is a dual PII-350 box with a 64M Geforce2 MX xine appears to be
> the best I can get and I still lose sync between audio and video.
> 
> At work omi is the best for DVDs while I generally use mplayer for
> avis or mpgs.
> 
> I have heard ogle is also good on lower end machines but I haven't
> tried compiling at home yet so I can't say for sure.
> 
> Sorry I don't have URLs for each but a freshmeat/google search should
> turn up the homepages for each.
> 
> On 22 Sep, CM Miller wrote:
> > 
> > Can anyone on the list recommend a Linux media player
> > that can play like mpg and/or avi files? 
> > 
> > thanks, 
> > 
> > -Chris 
> > 
> > 
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