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Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Oh, I didn't know that. So xine is the super dooper player that can
> open all these formats without much of a hassle eh? Cool. :) Quite
> interesting too, you know. Some 5 years ago when I first got into the
> Linux world at college (our labs were all Linux based), xine was the
> player we all used back then. When I started using NetBSD now, I thot
> xine might have been pushed to the background (I didnt like its
> interface much, frankly) and that other players might have taken its
> place. But after a few days of use I see that xine still is the
> reigning chap. Atleast that's the only player (between xine, vlc, and
> totem) that worked well and got me watching a movie. :)

VLC might very well be the best option for Windows. During the
last rare opportunity of having a Windows in front of me, it
played everything without a hassle even seemingly obscure formats.
After that I tried it on NetBSD and I have no clue what I did
wrong but it hardly worked at all for me. It even depends on
wxWindows which I have zero use for but all those dependencies
took a hell lot of time compiling.

Dakara, I'm confused you don't even mention MPlayer. To be honest
I patched it for H.264 support - I'm not sure whether the one
in pkgsrc finally supports it or whether it still crashes with
most files. Anyway, at least on a x86 machine and a Unix-like
system, MPlayer looks to me like the player of choice. I tried
xine twice but i had the same bug with H.264 and a couple of
other bugs causing crashes. Its GUI is odd but not too bad. However,
I don't really see the need for a GUI for a multimedia player
and there's always gmplayer if you need one.

That said, I believe using systrace is mandatory with any kind
of multimedia player. Actually, I use two rulesets, one for
local files and another for playing remote files because in
the former case, you most-definitely don't want to give that
thing internet access. To me systrace is only one but a big
advantage of NetBSD over Linux.

--=20
Christian

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