[lug] mplayer - what can I use it for?

[John Hernandez]

I can't answer your questions, but I thought that I would mention that 
MPlayer makes a NICE and fairly useable DVD player.  It's perhaps a 
little thin on features and not very mature yet, but hey, it works with 
a minimal build effort and surprisingly few dependencies (just 
libdvdread and libdvdcss)!  I'm very happy if it does nothing else.

Sorry I can't speak about Enhanced CD formats.

-John

Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> I've downloaded MPlayer, a video player that is gaining alot of popularity
> (if Freshmeat is to be believed, which it probably should be).  It builds
> and runs okay.  Now the question begs - what can I do with this thing?
> 
> I tried previewing some movies at Pixar and MovieFone, but the compressed
> MOV format is not yet supported.  I tried some of the Enhanced CD's I have
> but either those don't work or I'm not providing the right track number for
> the video.  I don't have a DVD player so can't test that. 
> 
> What video can I test this sucker with?  Anyone got some pointers to online
> videos or some ideas how I can play the enhanced CD's I have?  Oh, and I
> have all the DLL's from my Windows 98 installation loaded as well.  MPlayer
> sees them and seems to be happy with them.  I guess I just don't have the
> right drivers for QT5.
> 
> 


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