video playback - which software

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: video playback - which software
started by: mkie

Posted by mkie on Mar. 05 2006,10:16

I'm using DSL right now on my notebook (2 GHz, 256 MB RAM) because my Wind*ws installation crashed (apparently due to a HD problem). So I copied all the data to a new disk and boot DSL from CD (I want to decide later on which OS to install on the new HD).

As I have quite a bit of video files (mostly WMV format) I need a video player capable of playing these. Which one would you recommend? I tried mplayer and xine so far, like xine more (from a look and feel point of view) but I'm not sure about it.

Looking forward to your comments.

Michael

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 06 2006,02:21

Mplayer + codecpak should let you play a lot of different codecs.

Also, you could try and apt-get install vlc as an alternative.

Posted by ks2 on Dec. 15 2006,19:20

the vlc version is only a very old release. i think 0.2.8

any way to download/install an newer verion of vlc without compiling all needed libraries?