movies under linux

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Hello all.

I would just like to post this for all the people haveing problems playing movies, of any kind, under windows.

For a long time I used windows and was constantly maddend by the lack of support for a lot of vidio files. two years ago I switched to linux and (after a small frustration caused by SuSE includeing a broken version of mplayer on the instalation disks) I compiled mplayer. wow. It can play more movie formats than any other movie player proprietary or otherwise. As it says in the docs, it can even play broken AVI files (microsofts movie format) which can't even be played under windows!! DVD's VCD's AVI'S etc etc. You name it, mplayer can play/encode it!! so the simple answer to most of the "I cant play such and such file on my windows xp/me/98 etc box" would be: Install linux. If thats too daunting a prospect for you then download or buy a "live" version which boots from cd giving you all the joys of linux without ever touching your hard disk(s).
Now is the time. GNU/Linux is on the brink of being, UNARGUABLY, the best OS on the planet!

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I agree it play more video codecs than any other player PERIOD. But not all. I have run accross a few codecs that even Mplayer wont play. For those I use Xine. So I set Mplayer has my default and when it wont play I try Xine. If it still dosn't I try VLC after that its deleted. Because if it dosn't play in any one of these 3 players Nothing will Play it. I recently captured a video segment off tv and the only thig that would play it was VLC. It wouldn't play under windows Media Player were I captured it or Mplay or Xine.