[KLUG Members] mplayer & real player

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 17 May 2004 20:50:33 -0400


> > > SuSE 9.1 doesn't work either, but for a different reason ...
> > > mplayer no longer seems to be an included app in the 9.1 distro.
> > That bites!  What do they offer as an alternative?
> Nothing I've used (and some I've never even heard of).
> "kaffeine - A Xine-based Multimedia Player"

Not a big fan of xine, haven't had alot of luck in the past.

> gstreamer, 

gstreamer isn't an application, it is a multimedia component system used to
build multimedia applications (like GNOME 2.6's Totem)

> kdemultimedia3, ...

Which might be a gstreamer app,  both KDE and GNOME are moving to gstreamer,
despite the "g" in the name.