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Doctor V:
I have come to the conclusion that RealNetworks, like Microsoft, is run by the Nazis.  RealOne's licence agreement didn't impress me.  They too are putting all kinds of DRM into their newest Media Player.  Anyway, I want a media player that runs on Linux that will play most of the major media formats and will hopefully embed into Mozilla, and is preferably open-source.  Any suggestions?

V

[ October 21, 2002: Message edited by: Doctor V ]

Calum:
what you use is probably it right now.

mozilla and plugger seem fine to me, realplayer will just need to be blocked from phoning home, and remember to use realplayer 8, and no higher version (that goes for windows too)

i have not really used MPlayer or Xine yet, so maybe over to somebody who knows...

KernelPanic:
mplayer is great.
Voidmain will probably give you the marketing spiel later...

voidmain:
You need "plugger" and "mplayer". MPlayer plays more formats than any other player that I am aware of (including all the newest M$ and Quicktime formats).

See plugger here:
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html

See MPlayer here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/

You can play many many video formats assuming you have all of the win32 video/audio codecs installed (provided on the MPlayer web site).

Now having said that, some sites that put up video use M$ Windows and M$ IE specific code before the video is played that may give you trouble, however that does not mean MPlayer can not play the video that they provide.

Sometimes you have to "view source" on the M$ specific web pages to find the actual video content/links and bypass the stupid M$ registry checks and *.cab file installations. Then download and play the video or use play it directly from the site using mplayer using the embedded link to the actual video that you found. These are M$ nazi sites but can be gotten around with a certain amount of pain. Well designed web sites you will have no trouble with, even if they use the same video format as the Nazi designed web sites.

[ October 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
Why not pay a small amount of $$$ to get the codeweavers mediaplayer pack for linux, with it you get Quicktime and media player 6.4 i think?

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