> Craig, you are being purposely difficult, I've made it plain several times > that what I'm concerned with is the ability to play the videos in any > link I might run into off of a site such as /. or cnn.news. > For cnn mplayer works perfectly. I don't have tv cable, so that's my only source of tv news. It'd better work. At any rate, there is a large overlap of multimedia libraries among mplayer/xine/vlc/ogg, so you can install all of them afterall, and try them yourself.
