All in one Media player

[Ops]

Is there an all in one media player for Red hat 9?

Basically it would have support for linux and windows formats and everything is in one package?

Ive looked at reaplayer but its pretty outdated..

[je_fro]

mplayer

[maqish]

You could go for xmms, that plays a lot, but you need a patch from xmms to play mp3 using RH9

realplayer is indeed a bit old, but realOne is already available and but i'm not sure will also play mp3,

or go for mplayer when build correctly, i mean configured/compiled correctly, you can also play windows media files.. i guess that is what you need

mplayer is normally used as an divx/dvd/movie player but will also play music files.

my advice, if you want the whole package go for mplayer..

Maqish

[Satanic Atheist]

MPlayer is definitely the way to go but (and this is a BIG but)...

The libdvdcss.so library is no longer available due to licensing restrictions. Naturally, I keep a copy lying around so I don't have to download it any more. If you need it, let me know and I'll send it to you.

Try Googling for "Mplayer howto" and you should find some great links to get it set up ready (but be warned - it takes an age to get it compiled).

Two more points - has anyone had trouble with the aalib library? I included it when compiling but it crashes my machine when I attempt to use it in a framebuffer mode. And it's too cute to ignore.

Is there a way of disabling that extremely annoying "Your machine is TOO SLOW to play this..." message. My machine is not too slow and I still get it from time to time.

OK - point 3 - what's the command line argument to disable the GUI bit? You know - in MPlayer there are two windows, the video window and the control box. It's the control box I want to do away with.

Cheers,

James

[petermonica]

I tried installing mPlayer and this is what happenned:

[petermonica@localhost mplayer]$ rpm -Uvh mplayer-common-0.91-2.i386.rpm mplayer-gui-0.91-2.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

What am I doing wrong here?

As always, thanks.

[je_fro]

You needed to be root.