Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 08:54:15 +0100 From: Peter Harmsen <pharmsen@horizon.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: media players Message-ID: <20050206085415.163eb98d@alcatraz.concepts.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050205174638.GA637@thought.org> References: <ef60af09050203091546136dce@mail.gmail.com> <20050205065704.GJ8619@alzatex.com> <20050205174638.GA637@thought.org>
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:46:38 -0800
Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:57:04PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:15:18PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> > > I am looking for a media player that supports the oss sound driver,
> > > easy to install codex, and uses the gtk2 libs ?
> >
> > xine is by far my favorite media app and has the best support for
> > playing dvds with menus. It can use win32 codecs pretty well too. It
> > doesn't use gtk2, but still has a very nice gui. mplayer is also pretty
> > good, it can play dvds, but no real menu support that I've seen and
> > win32 codecs also work. It has a gtk2 gui, but I think it's horrible.
> > I use just it's plain window interface and just use keyboard shortcuts
> > to control it.
> >
>
> Can you (or anyone!) clue me in on how xine works?
> Apps like RealPlayer just-work{TM}; mplayer has no
> Quit button; xine looks lke something from Pluto.
>
> (Does xine work with links? netscapr7? )
>
> gary
Xine works just like any other (hardware) dvd-player,especially
with the Celoma skins.Only thing you have to do is specifying
the input device under the media tab.Most dvd players will be
on "/dev/acdX" where X is 0,1,2.......
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