Can anyone recommend an avi/mpg layer1/mp3 player for X11/KDE that actually works and does not depend on aRts ( which seems to be no longer maintained )?
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Can anyone recommend an avi/mpg layer1/mp3 player for X11/KDE that actually works and does not depend on aRts ( which seems to be no longer maintained )?
thanks
Out of interest, what is KDE?
--- G.
A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death
- from Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'
KDE is the K-Desktop Environment. A graphical Desktop manager for Linux/Unix X11.
Kind of a "Windows-like user interface for Linux" ( although some people would kill me for calling it that, even the comparison to M$ products is a sacrilege ).
EDIT: It's free and GPL'd open source of course www.kde.org.
Does not XMMS work?
That is what I use, it's groovy.
Edit: Then again I use gnome not KDE so maybe it doesn't work right in KDE :>
No, it -kind of- works, but there are some unresolved copyright issues with some of the codecs. For that reason Red Hat hat to remove the mp3 support from xmms and all other mp3 players shipped with RH9.
Download it and install it your self. Then no worries about copywrite
ok, I'll try that, thanks. I hope it doesn't need any of the aRts libs
What video player do you use?
I use Mandrake so I don't have to worry about installing most stuff. It came with the OS. I don't watch video much and not at all so far in GNU/Linux.
After I had to compile the 24th package only to run one stupid little program, I've given up. This is taking way too much time. Red Hat is still excellent for running servers ( I actually run 2 RH7 Servers on my network ), but totally useless as a workstation. Maybe that will change in the future, until then I'll try Mandrake.
Funny, I actually stayed with RH8 just so i could have DIVX and MP3 capability built in to it. I put RH9 on and found out that DIVX no longer worked, so I just screw it and put RH8 back on. I didn't feel like RH9 was that big of an advancment to RH8 as far as a workstation is concerned.
<span style=\'color:red\'>"You might say that I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one."</span>
I haven't tried using 7 or 8 as a workstation yet. Maybe I should, RH9 is pretty useless as a workstation...
Although I just found out a couple of days ago that aRts is still maintained ( it just hadn't been updated for quite some time and the website was down ), there are now some other libraries missing. If I only knew which...
Whenever I try to compile _anything_ that has to do with KDE or GNOME I just get an ERROR 9. The KDE libs must be installed correctly though. Anyway, it's certainly a lot more work to search through kilobytes of make files and check each single library than to install a different distro, which is probably what I'm going to do. But it feels like betraying myself, I've been using Red Hat for years now... kinda got used to it
