On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Benton Middleton wrote: >Timothy Murphy <tim <at> birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> writes: >> Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> > If you stay on this list long enough, you will see the multimedia >> > question is being asked about every 1-2 weeks, I'd say. So anyone who's >> > been on the list for 2 weeks or more knows about vlc. And about mplayer/ >> > mencoder, xine, ffmpeg, transcode, acirdip, streamdvd/streamanalyze, >> > k9copy, dvdauthor, dvdstyler, vobcopy, etc. Did I leave out anything? >> > Admittedly, the stuff beyond xine is geek stuff, but it's still well >> > known. >> >> If you are so smart, tell us how to get rid of totem. > >************************************************************************ > >There is a NEW open-source player online at http://www.getdemocracy.com > called Democracy Player. They are GPL, open source & source code > downloadable. They also have pre-compiled versions for Windows, Mac X, & > Linux Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva and others in development. They also have > "BroadCast Machine" for broadcasting ALL formats of video from yur website, > but it is currently unavailable as it is being totally re-written. >According to their site, installing the player on your system is as easy as >typing "Yum Install DEmocracy", this for Fedora 6 & 7. Check 'em out! > - - Benton Middleton, @ The >IpowerNetworK Oh it worked ok for most of the stuff I fed it. but it locks the system up in dependency hell, so I finally nuked it. Also, for those of us configure challenged, it would have been nice to have some sort of a tutorial on how to make ff etc use it as the default player. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Inara: "It wasn't entirely a disaster." Mal: "I got stabbed! Right here!" Inara: "You also lined up exciting new crime." --Episode #4, "Shindig"