polemicz Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 My son has finally ditched windows and wonders about software for playing his avi files. I wonder what you all would reccomend. Steve Scrimpshire, if you read this, he is running my old Gateway system with the kadoka mb. Suse 9 installed without a hitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 Mplayer plays avis fine and most other things. If you need features like looping, I recommend Xine. I haven't figured out how to get Mplayer to do looping. Well, I donated my case, Kadoka MoBo and AMD 750 to my ex-fiancee (no way she'll give up Windows...she even made me reinstall Win2000 over WinXP so her crappy editing software that came with her crappy camera would work...she doesn't like change) when I upgraded my computer, but that is nice to know that Suse installs on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 There's AviPlay (or is it AviPlayER ?) on the Mdk CD's. It... erm... plays avi's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 Depends on the type of file. For long files like films (eg divx) I would recommend Xine as it works really well for me, but its very much a film player. For short clips I prefer KMplayer. Its a KDE frontend to Mplayer, with an arts driver for compatiblity and being MPlayer will play just about everything under the sun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfoss Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 I personally prefer MPlayer. It allows for playing a larger variety of file and compression types "out-of-the-box". If you have the codecs loaded, MPlayer can use them. Xine normally needs plugins to accomplish this. Additionally, MPlayer normally includes MEncoder which I found was useful for recording or transcoding files. It is over and above the basic AVI playing capability, but if you decide later that you want this functionality, it's already installed. With Xine, look for another app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 I believe mplayer has a settings file where you can define looping behavior... gotta read the manual and do some googles.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 ... gotta read the manual and do some googles.. That's why I haven't posted a question on the forums about it. :P (There's also a version of RealPlayer for Linux, but I don't like RealPlayer...I think it handles avis?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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