avi

Forum: water cooler
Topic: avi
started by: sobie

Posted by sobie on Jan. 09 2004,19:21

does anyone know of a decent avi player thats precomiled?

Posted by ImNotHere on Jan. 10 2004,03:49

I think that there are packages for Mplayer and Xine.
If you want a standalone media player you could always use GeeXbox or Movix for a good avi/divx/mp3 Live-Cd distro.
I always like build video players from SRC becuase, I think they run faster that way, more optimized or something... DSL comes with a mpeg player, but no avi player. Another thing to consider is video codecs, becuase there are a ton of differnt ones.....

Posted by Del on Jan. 10 2004,06:04

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to get from 'unstable'. Then, apt-get install xine-ui

Posted by Stu Pidasso on Jan. 21 2004,06:50

try VLC < VLC >

precompiles available for many distros (incl Debian) and source too. also, many codecs avaialble.