From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 12:21:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD0237B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (ra.dweebsoft.com [209.237.40.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F0843F85 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:21:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Received: from daxhome (anubis.dweebsoft.com [64.81.58.36]) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1IKLKJu034084 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:21:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Message-ID: <065201c2d78b$4cd30900$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com> From: "Daxbert" To: Subject: FreeBSD Media Player equivalent... Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:21:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've finally decided to run FreeBSD as my primary workstation environment. Previously I have only used it as a server platform. I've managed to replace most of the desktop utilities I need, but I need a good replacement for Windows Media Player. I'm looking for opinions here.... I'd like an application that works well as a stream player (i.e. supports playing mp3/mpeg/avi/etc from a web site via mozilla) as well as playing dvd/vcd/divx/dvd/etc from the localhost. I'm also looking for an application that has the concept of easy to install/manage codecs. I'd like to avoid having to --enable via configure and re-compile each time I need a new codec. The GUI need not be pretty, but should not be kludgy, and adware would be a big minus. If the application supported network updates of both the player and the codec w/o adware, I'd even be willing to throw some money towards a yearly subscription. Suggestions? --daxbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message