Re: VLC/mplayer (Re: The Linux desktop challenge)

["Jonathan Arnold" <user=619@nabble.blu.org>]

 Derek Martin wrote: 
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 02:40:03PM -0500, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
>> On Dec 2, 2007 12:55 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>> Anyone have any suggestions on programs to install or configuration options? 
>> * VLC Video Plugin 
> 
> FWIW, I love VLC, but I find that mplayer with all the *extra* codecs 
> tends to play WMV and other proprietary codecs much more nicely. 
> Your distro may or may not have packages for the *extra* codecs. 
> Fedora/Livna does not... I had to download from the mplayer home page. 

I just wrote up a big table of all the Audio players I could find for Linux 
and posted it to Linux Brain Dump: 

http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/11/30/audio-player-extravaganza/

One suggestion was to add a 'license' column to the table, which is a good 
idea, but complicated. 

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