On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:21:09 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:01 PM -0400 "Amadeus W. M." amadeus84@cablespeed.com wrote:
Both xine and mplayer are players, they do not modify the files, so in particular you can't add information, etc. For viewing they are both good viewers, and the defaults are fine, and so is vlc (video-lan client). I liked oggle too, but for some reason it disappeared from FC4.
I wanted to watch my new Firefly boxed set, so I tried both xine and mplayer, and neither displayed the opening menu, just the initial animation before the menu. I was able to play the disk with VLC on Win2k, though. I haven't had a chance to go back and try VLC on FC4 to see if it's any better.
Yes, I forgot to mention, mplayer does not play menus (forget about xine), but that's a feature that command line fanatics (such as the mplayer developers, or myself) like. Go directly to the movie. If I remember correctly oggle did play the menus, and kaffeine (which I forgot to mention in my previous post) does that too. And so does vlc.