Re: Movie Player for Ubuntu

From: Marius Sturm (msturm_at_fbe.hs-bremen.de)
Date: 06/15/05

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    Am Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:10:01 -0700 schrieb Marek Williams:

    > From reading on the net it appears that MPlayer might be better. But
    > it's not listed in synaptic. Is it possible to install it in Ubuntu?
    > Or are there other options besides Totem and MPlayer?
    MPlayer works great, use one of the multimedia howtos for ubuntu f.e.:
    http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials/1/tutorial-25783.html

    See section libdvdcss2 for playing original dvds with mplayer.

    Marius.

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