Re: [LUG] Good media player ?

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Friday 17 Oct 2003 2:30 pm, richard.fuller1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I've installed RedHat 9 and it seems (?) that the basic personal
> > install does not include a multi-purpose media player.
> >
> > CD player yes, CD ripper yes but not a media player that will play
> > .avi's .......mpg's........wav........mov.........mp3...........asf
> > etc.
>
>
> I'm a tad surprised that RH9 didn't put XMMS in the Multimedia menu for KDE 
> but it sounds like you'd appreciate a more friendly distro like Yoper where 
> the KDE menus are renamed to less cryptic names - Play a CD, Play an MP3 etc. 
> instead of kscd and xmms.

er.. xmms is there.. doesn't have mp3 support by default due to 
copyrighted code etc.. You can get rpm's for it tho..


> > If anyone is familiar with RedHat 9 can they tell me of a good all
> > round Media player in the Distribution ??..and is it as easy as double
> > clicking on the file to get it to install (?) (probably not I rather
> > feel, we are not in windows territory now young man.)
>
>
> It is almost that easy in KDE or Nautilus, but then you moved to Linux for a 
> reason and this is one part of that reason - you'll be required to give the 
> root password before the system will 'execute an arbitrary executable' (in 
> Windows speak), in this case an installable RPM. We don't want Johnny Jnr. 
> installing a rootkit/trojan/spyware agent now do we?

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