Re: Viewing old video? alternative to xine?

From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek_at_cedro.info>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 01:01:36 UTC 
On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote:
> I'm having trouble playing some old video clips with xine-0.99.14_5
> on 14.2-RELEASE-p1
> kdenlive handles all of the below just fine, but I'm looking for a
> simple player to use to help catalog before editing.

VLC usually plays anything even broken files, it has console interface
too, and supports various outputs, I even used this to live stream.
MPV may not have as big codec coverage as vlc but can play in console
using drm.

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