On Monday 14 April 2008 09:22:52 am William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I am running F8 and have downloaded and installed both Xine and Mplayer. > Xine( and totem I suppose) keeps taking over as default. > > With previous Fedora versions I just uninstalled Xine to get Mplayer > working, however this time I thought I might try to get Xine going. The > front end gui looks attractive and Firefox about: seems to be saying all > the codecs are there. > > However, the first problem is there seems to be no Xine help > documentation. I am willing to do the exploratory work and climb the > learning curve. But before I begin and fruitlessly waste a lot of time, > if anyone has some tips, hints or experience using one or the other of > Xine or Mplayer, I would appreciate a short post. > > I know there is lots of info and previous posts on this subject, but > before I even go there, is it worth it? Or should I just eliminate Xine > and use Mplayer? > > -- > Regards Bill I originally wanted to use mplayer for the wide range of codecs implemented and available but it was a pita. When kplayer came along as a front end I became quite happy with the combo. works for me. Dave -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions. -- Ursula K. LeGuin
