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Of course, the trailer is in quicktime

So fucking what? You think I can't play it on Linux? You're wrong. MPLAYER is the solution.

Weren't this these guys that used parts of mplayer code and other open source projects (GPL) and tried to keep their end closed?

Anyway, I didn't follow the discussion... Just caught something somewhere...

They are the ones that used some of ffmpeg's and mplayer's code a couple of month ago and refused to open their source code(as required by gpl). They only opened it after two weeks of fighting. If you're curious, the details are on the mplayer homepage(just scroll down a bit).

So I wouldn't support them if I had an Xbox.

Its worth noting that this project is based on MPlayer, the Linux video player. There were some GPL violation issues recently with XBox Media Player but they have apparently now been resolved...

Ellen Feiss on Linux. Use MPlayer.

Ellen Feiss on Linux. Use MPlayer.

Checkout the home page. In short, its a small (~5MB) linux distribution designed to be booted from a CD, with autodetection of video and audio, and automatically plays all the media files placed in the root directory of the CD. It uses Mplayer to play the movies, so all formats supported by mplayer (pratically everything!!) are supported by movix. All u do is put your "movixed" cd in ur drive, reboot, and watch the movie...all the software for playing it is right there on the disk.

I have a laptop with a 250MHz processor, and Movix is the only way i can play Divx on it without dropping frames or loosing audio sync.

LinuxGhoul

Checkout the home page. In short, its a small (~5MB) linux distribution designed to be booted from a CD, with autodetection of video and audio, and automatically plays all the media files placed in the root directory of the CD. It uses Mplayer to play the movies, so all formats supported by mplayer (pratically everything!!) are supported by movix. All u do is put your "movixed" cd in ur drive, reboot, and watch the movie...all the software for playing it is right there on the disk.

I have a laptop with a 250MHz processor, and Movix is the only way i can play Divx on it without dropping frames or loosing audio sync.

LinuxGhoul

First, define what you mean by "nicely". No one can help you unless you can explicitly enumerate your requirements. That said, look at Evolution?. It's similar to Outhouse Express. Tools exist to convert .PST files into standard mbox or mdir formats, so you can use any mail client you want.

Synchronization with my palm pilot

JPilot? Dunno, I have a Zaurus and use Qtopia Desktop, which works fine.

USENET. I started out reading usenet on trn, but I'm not sure I can move from Forte Agent & Xnews to TRN.

trn? Where have you been for the last 10 years? There are plenty of other Usenet clients for Unix-like systems available. Pan and Knode for the GUI, slrn and emacs for the console. Pan is similar to Agent.

IRC.

Never been too involved in IRC, so can't offer any suggestions.

Office apps.

OpenOffice has worked fine for me so far, but very little that I do requires "office" functionality. If I want to write text, I use a text editor.

"MultiMedia". From Winamp to Divx to every other codec under the sun used to encode avis, mpgs and the like. Much of that goes away when you abandon windows.

Really? mplayer has played every movie I've thrown at it, except for Sorenson V3-encoded stuff, and they've managed to get that working partially now. Also, a friend of mine gave me a movie that was encoded in something that the default version of 'Doze Media Player that came with Doze2K couldn't play, but mplayer figured it out immediately (and reported the encoding was MS DirectShow 2.0, of all things! Sigh.)

Yahoo/AIM/ICQ messengers & chat rooms

I hear good things about GAIM, but I don't care much for instant messaging. Chat rooms? Yuck.

Digital camera and CF reader

Difficult to answer without details. Most digital cameras with USB cables act like USB Mass Storage devices; you plug it in and do "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera" and that's it. CF readers are similar if they're USB, if they're PCMCIA, you replace /dev/sda1 with /dev/hde1. You want real advice, post the details to comp.os.linux.hardware.

I can deal with using pine for email, but how do I convert 60 megs of emails in OE into something usable in linux?

You don't have to deal with Pine if you prefer something else--I know it's hard for you to believe, but great advances have been made since 1995. Try LibPST to convert PST into mbox, then you can use any mail client that understands mbox (every sane mail client understands mbox.) HTH, use your Usenet-posting knowledge if you need help since Slashdot sucks as a tech-support forum.

mplayer has had ascii output for quite a while (as long as I've known about mplayer. And as announced here mplayer just announced support for sorenson V3, so you can play quicktime (and practically every other video format under the sun...). Quite happy running on OS X (as well as most *nix'es)

As far as I can tell, this was the last major codec that didn't work. Well, it kinda worked before, but sound was unplayable. As of yet though, I've not come across any other file that didn't play.

Here is a codec status page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html. It is updated frequently.

If you get MPlayer, the codec pack, and configure it for XV video output and SDL audio output on a properly accellerated system, the playback produces virtually no CPU load. It is an incredible program. I really like the fact that the GUI is completely optional, and you can just use keypresses to manipulate movie playback.

But mommy, why do they hurt Tux like that?

why dont YOU look more closely.

clicky.

mplayer definitely DOES SUPPORT sorenson V3

yeah, why dont you try it sometime ?

clicky. about 12 down.

Because mplayer will play windows media files (as well as Real video/audio files).
It will also play every quicktime, except those encoded with Sorensen V3. It WILL play V1, as it was REd and released.

So linux/unix users can play everything but V3 sorenson, so both Real and WMV are more interesting than quicktime.

Mplayer homepage

That a fact? I've got a nice WinXP (no SP1) box here that begs to differ...Thus, it also follows that anyone running Win2K or WinME or anything earlier would also have to either install DivX, or upgrade Windows Media Player.

Wtf has mplayer to do with Windows Media Player upgrades?

Or, are you suggesting, contrary to common Slashdot mythos, that I *should* install all the latest and greatest upgrades of software from Microsoft, which will violate my privacy and auction my firstborn to evil megacorps and sell my wife to a whorehouse in Utah?

I thought he was suggesting that we Linux users can watch DivX out of the box, with mplayer.

(btw, the RealVideo version of this Nemo clip can be watched with RealPlayer 8 for Linux --if you can stand the EULAs on that thing. Just don't install it as root.)

$ mencoder -o nero.avi -oac copy -ovc copy mms://wmd31sea.activate.net/digitalmedia/bvim/find ing_nemo/finding_nemo_trailer_750.wmv

$ mplayer nero.avi

tada, no crossover required. also no lag, no skipping. what more could you want ? :)

mplayer homepage.

does anyone have a direct link to windows media stream so i can feeed it to mplayer - trying to wade through all this js cruft to get the uri is killing me.

What an excellent advance! I've been using Mplayer to play WMA audio as well as streaming WMA/ASF Audio for quite some time now. Even though it has the "ugly DLL hacks", it works nicely, but I would much rather see a plugin (perhaps using the new piece of code) so that everyone can enjoy it with XMMS. Is there already an XMMS input plugin already available that allows the playback of WMA audio (preferrably using the new code that is free from WINE/DLL hacks) and possibly WMA streaming audio (mms:// and http://?).

Anyone else unnable to play many recent movies encoded in 5.02 because the latest linux release is still 5.01?

Try using MPlayer with the included FFMPEG decoder (the default codecs.conf is probably fine). I haven't had trouble playing any videos recently.

I have MPlayer 0.90 pre 8 running on my iBook under OS X 10.2.1.

It also violates the GPL.
Stealing is a crime.

I seem to recall that MPlayer uses software for decryption and is unaffected by region coding. At least, there have been one or two mail threads on the mailing list from people commenting that they haven't had to change the region on their drives but mplayer plays disks from other regions anyway, and wondering how it accomplishes it...

Hmm, maybe MPlayer will support the format? Even if it is a new digitally signed media format, players like it are very good at using the Windows based codecs.

Not time to panic just yet, there are still a few compatibility options.

Mplayer supports the Ascii-Art library, so you can sit around and watch any movie you like in ascii. :)

• vcdimager - writes (S)VCDs
• mplayer (and, more specifically, mencoder) for playing (and recording) video
• mjpegtools - for doing some conversions (including creating (s)VCD streams and stills)

• ffmpeg
• nvrec
• freevo
• zapping (or, more specifically, the mp1e portion of zapping)

What do others use for recording?

I went through using various tools and had best results with:
vcr
and
nvrec

Apparently mencoder (part of the kickass mplayer package) will also do the job.

Using nvrec you can start recording a program and then start playing it back via mplayer a short time later as it's still recording with few problems.

I recently bought a ReplayTV
though, and since these babies have ethernet, I should be able to stream my video directly from it using Xine/mplayer over my LAN. I'm moving on Monday and haven't bothered to wire ethernet to it yet so this is untested. To grab/stream video from a ReplayTV under Linux or another Java enabled OS use dvarchive
I've been thinking of setting up a cron job to suck the video off my ReplayTV, use transcode to convert it to mpeg1 and burn it to a VCD to archive shows to CD automatically..

BTW, I've had problems many times with mplayer and A/V sync, while xine will play the same video flawlessly. I hate the xine UI though, and much prefer mplayers sparten interface..

Right here.

The mplayer suite includes mencoder. Check the docs. The MPEG4 stuff uses the libavcodec library from the FFMPEG project; I've heard that it compares favorably to DIVX 5 & Xvid.

Q #131: why does mplayer sucks?
A: why not? :)

Q #132: I can't see any picture, only hear the sound
A: you are blind

Q: #133: I have configured and compiled mplayer, how do I use it?
A: try sticking it up your ass.

Q: mplayer crashing with every files. i've attached output of ls -la
A: we need also output of cat /etc/shadow

You should try mplayer instead. It supports loading of win32 codecs, streams, vcd's, dvds, tv capture, some Realplayer files, and my favorite feature... anything it can decode, it can convert. Worked good for turning some vcd's into divx for a dialup friend of mine.

Waiting for a DVD to rip.

So:

Go buy any old digital camera and try to download the pics on a RedHat system.

Go buy a DVD-R and try to burn a disc.

Go to any old website showing media (RealPlayer, QuickTime, Windows Media) and see how successful you are at viewing content.

Buy a Firewire DV Video Camera and see how successful you are in getting the video off and editing it.

Try to visit a site that's made for IE.
Go to the store and buy a game. (I'll give you these -- VmWare and other solutions are a serious bitch to setup, and don't work well except in certain Distros)

Buy a PDA and get it to synch up.

Your network card doesn't work, find somebody you know willing to come over and fix it. (Huh? If the card is broken, even your God(s) ain't/aren't gonna fix it.)

>The steps to do any of the above in Windows are very easy

Uhhh, sure... I mean, I mean, if you want to have every two or three DVDs come out as coasters (happens with Prassi Primo DVD for me) sure. Or if you want to use crappy outdated camera software that just lets you easily download one picture at a time through a slow ass serial connection, great (Fuji MX-1200). I've never done DV, but Kino doesn't look too hard. Or you can try Cinerella, which seems more full featured and easier.

>When a DVD-Burner manufacturer is swamped with "Uhh where's the Linux Drivers?"

DVD-R in linux doesn't use "drivers", unless you count the built in generic SCSI support built in linux (since well before DVD was available for most PCs) as a "driver". Try saying that about windows. Especially windows 9x...

HTH. And take it from me, there's NO software in windows that lets you use a Celeron 300 to burn DVD-R at 2x and surf the 'net at the same time.

Linux's motto should be "Spend some time now -- Then do more, quicker".

For portable devices, it almost makes sense - except, of course, for the lack of linux support.

There's plenty of (unofficial) Linux support for WMA. Both MPlayer and avifile support most WMA formats. Plus, Crossover provides a plugin for WMA8 that works just fine (granted it costs $25, but it's the best quality/buck ratio in the business).

DZM

There are a few similar projects out there as well that I've been tracking.

• Myth TV has a music mode AND does live tv functionality! (I will probably migrate to this instead of continuing my project).
• Dave/Dina project may fit the bill too.
• IR File Chooser for the perl hackers. :)

Use mms_client to download it and the use mplayer with the Win32 codecs

Anyone knows about a better mms downloader?
Streaming sucks!

Use mms_client to download it and the use mplayer with the Win32 codecs

Anyone knows about a better mms downloader?
Streaming sucks!

> If anyone knows how to jack .asx, .asf, .wmf,
> .rm and .ram files in *nix, let me know!
MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/) can handle asf/wmv.

As for rm/ram/mov, well... they suck anyway.

mplayer. Binary distribution and integration into desktop environments needs to catch up a bit, but we're about there.

[x] Easy support for video files and DVD

You could do a LOT worse than mplayer..

mplayer already does this. You can even get debian packages, which when the realplayer program is installed will just automagically work to play rm files.

Evidently oblivion exists at www.mplayerhq.hu. They have an encoder that lets you rip your dvd to DivX4 using 1, 2 or 3 pass encoding. Instuctions are here. Is three lines at a command prompt simple enough?

And I share your feelings against Linux-only software. It seems as if there's a whole generation of coders, aimed at writing Unix software for Linux and nothing else. Fortunately however, the last geneation is still around, among the coders in stable projects such as X Windows, Gimp, XMMS and so on. Mplayer is a particularly good example of the "new" generation of hothead Linux coders, and I'm not the only one who noticed it:

Q: I compiled MPlayer with libdvdcss/libdivxdecore support, but when I try to start it, it says: error while loading shared libraries: lib*.so.0: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory I checked the file and it is there in /usr/local/lib.

A: What are you doing on Linux? Can't you install a library? Why do we get these questions? It's not MPlayer specific at all! Add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. Or install it to /usr/lib, because if you can't solve the /usr/local problem, you are careless enough to do such things.

Perhaps instead of taking the time to flame the person asking the question, the smart aleck could have simply answered the question graciously, then spent the time saved by skipping the flames fixing bugs in the installation script.

Eventually I negotiated my way through the installation minefield created by the agonizing installation and poor design. I stepped through it one gotcha at a time. I won't bore you with a tedious play-by-play, but I will mention that I had more bite marks than I would have if I had napped in a fire ant mound.

Check out mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ its a one shop stop for all my linux multimedia.

You can at least play the unencrypted Windows Media stuff with MPlayer, but I doubt that they will use such hacks.

One great advantage of Linux, besides being free, is that when correctly tuned it works on very cheap hardware. Even if you just have a 386 or 486, you can still use thousands of decent console applications (including stuff like MP3 players and web browsers -- heck, you can even use mplayer with an EGA graphics card) and get drivers for modern hardware. An old Pentium is fast enough for a simple X11 setup with small desktop aps like WindowMaker, LyX etc.

That being said, I don't buy the 3.9% number without some supporting evidence. Even in developing nations Windows is only slowly being replaced by Linux desktops, with relatively few major rollouts in recent months, and while Linux can run on low cost computers, the problem is that it's not exactly easy as pie to tune and configure properly. Internationalization is another issue ..

Playing music or movies on my PC is a neat trick, but I sure as hell don't need it.

I play movies all the time on my Linux PC with MPlayer. You have to compile it yourself since it's illegal according to the DMCA, but it works great. Try it out. If you want to watch Sorensen-encoded Quicktime movies, Codeweavers' Crossover plugin is supposed to work nicely here.

I also have no trouble playing music (in MP3 or OGG) using any of the countless music players available for Linux. I recommend XMMS the most though.

Switching to Linux doesn't necessarily mean you'll be missing out on anything.

The DLLs are used to play files that it wouldn't know how to read otherwise. Personally, I like Mplayer a lot better than Xine.

I see a lot of wma files, too, but mostly from this annoying Johnny Virgil guy. This dude seems to pop up in my KaZaA Lite searches, with a little gold icon by his files. I guess the gold icon means it's like search matching spam, but who is this guy? I don't want to download it, because that would be like clicking through the spam link (maybe my penis could use those extra two inches...). Anyway, I think MPlayer will play wmv files in linux.

Even easier: MPlayer can play MMS streams directly. Just type "mplayer mms://whatever" and it plays.
Mplayer homepage

mplayer writes about Joe Barr