Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Oh, I didn't know that. So xine is the super dooper player that can > open all these formats without much of a hassle eh? Cool. :) Quite > interesting too, you know. Some 5 years ago when I first got into the > Linux world at college (our labs were all Linux based), xine was the > player we all used back then. When I started using NetBSD now, I thot > xine might have been pushed to the background (I didnt like its > interface much, frankly) and that other players might have taken its > place. But after a few days of use I see that xine still is the > reigning chap. Atleast that's the only player (between xine, vlc, and > totem) that worked well and got me watching a movie. :) VLC might very well be the best option for Windows. During the last rare opportunity of having a Windows in front of me, it played everything without a hassle even seemingly obscure formats. After that I tried it on NetBSD and I have no clue what I did wrong but it hardly worked at all for me. It even depends on wxWindows which I have zero use for but all those dependencies took a hell lot of time compiling. Dakara, I'm confused you don't even mention MPlayer. To be honest I patched it for H.264 support - I'm not sure whether the one in pkgsrc finally supports it or whether it still crashes with most files. Anyway, at least on a x86 machine and a Unix-like system, MPlayer looks to me like the player of choice. I tried xine twice but i had the same bug with H.264 and a couple of other bugs causing crashes. Its GUI is odd but not too bad. However, I don't really see the need for a GUI for a multimedia player and there's always gmplayer if you need one. That said, I believe using systrace is mandatory with any kind of multimedia player. Actually, I use two rulesets, one for local files and another for playing remote files because in the former case, you most-definitely don't want to give that thing internet access. To me systrace is only one but a big advantage of NetBSD over Linux. -- Christian
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