The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application

[Manish Jain]

Robert Huff wrote:
> Erik Gustafson writes:
>
>   
>>  Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I
>>  can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually "just
>>  works" on everything i try to play.
>>     
>
> 	I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported
> codecs hasn't changed in several years.  That's mostly not a
> problem, but there are certain file types (.wmvs I have been told
> are handled correctly by Windows Media Player 10/11; this may be a
> DRM thing) that completely do not play.
>
>   
>>  If you want a fancy GUI, search in ports/multimedia for mplayer
>>  and you will find kde-mplayer, gnome-mplayer and friends.
>>     
>
> 	Mplayer has a gui (gmplayer) but it's pretty minimal.
>
>
> 				Robert Huff
>
>
>   

Hello Robert / Erik,

Thanks a lot. MPlayer certainly seems to come with strong credentials 
and recommendation. I am starting the build straight away. Since I am a 
die-hard gnomer, I'll go for gnome-mplayer as the frontend.

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