[ale] Streaming Media

[James Sumners]

I like Xine for thumbnailing purposes. I prefer to use MPlayer for
actual video playing because it rocks. But when it craps out on a
corrupt wmv I fall back on Totem with a Xine backend. Not sure why it
plays over corruption when MPlayer doesn't, but it does.

On 3/25/06, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> >>From xmms.org:
> >
> > "XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X
> > MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and
> > others with the use of Input plugins.
> >
> > XMMS is mainly targeted at music playback, but through thirdparty
> > plugins some rudimentary video capabilities exists, but there are much
> > better systems other than XMMS for video support."
> >
> > That isn't what he was looking for. Windows Media Player is primarily
> > a video player, as is MPlayer.
>
> I'm ripping cds, so I'm thinking audio, my bad.  I meant xine, which I
> much prefer over mplayer.
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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