slack 10.2 xine problem

sharathg786 · 08-01-2006, 04:24 AM

Hi, i'm a newbie
this is a silly question i think, but can anyone tell me if there's an equalizer in xine player? and which do u think is better of these three:

xine,
mplayer or
VLC

Eternal_Newbie · 08-01-2006, 05:24 AM

1) Niether Xine or gXine seem to have an equaliser.

2) It depends. They are all good, and each one is better in some areas than the others. I personally prefer Xine, you might like mplayer or VLC better. Slackware comes with xine, although you will need to install libdvdcss and the mplayer win32 codecs, both available as tgz's from linuxpackages

2 tgz's for mplayer are also available from linuxpackages (one needs gnome installed) and a VLC tgz is available from videolan.org. This seems to have all its dependencies included in the tgz, which is handy if you don't want to install them seperately.

sco1984 · 08-01-2006, 05:26 AM

I am downloading Slackware 10.2 , in Mandriva 2006 we get
"Kaffine" player which is good. But i dont remember if we
get this player in Slackware too. Well, put Slackware CD
and install full Multimedia packages. Sometimes due to no
plug ins it shows error. I am a newbie too but its just a
tip. I always try various Linux distro's..Hehe ....Try to
install all multimedia packages. I hope it'll work.

Bruce Hill · 08-01-2006, 05:31 AM

Perhaps since you're just starting to use Slackware, the
Slackware Linux Basics online manual written by Daniël de Kok
(danieldk @ LQ) would be helpful to read.

Then there is also Slackware Linux Essentials. This book is
designed to get you started with the Slackware Linux operating system.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention to you Darrell Anderson's
Slackware Desktop Enhancement Guide.

Last but not least, there are some important directories in
your Slackware operating system:

Code:

mingdao@silas:~$ cd /usr/doc/
/usr/doc/Linux-FAQs/
/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/

and of course, the manual pages. For any command, you can issue
"man <command name>" and get it's manual page. For instance:

Code:

mingdao@silas:~$ man xine
XINE(1x)                                                                                                                           XINE(1x)

NAME
       xine - a free video player

SYNOPSIS
       xine [options] [MRL] ...

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the xine audio/video player.

       xine  plays  MPEG  system  (audio and video) streams, mpeg elementary streams (e.g. .mp3 or .mpv files), mpeg transport streams, ogg
       files, avi files, asf files, quicktime files, (S)VCDs and DVDs and many more.

OPTIONS
       The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--').  A summary of options  are
       included below.  For a complete description, see README and FAQ in /usr/share/doc/xine-ui or on the xine home page.
<and much more>

That being said, I'm not sure, but I don't think there
is an equalizer for Xine. IMO it's more for video that
audio.

Of the three I've only used Xine, because it somes with
Slackware and my movie needs are very minimal.

Eternal_Newbie · 08-01-2006, 05:42 AM

I don't think that kaffeine comes with Slackware 10.2, It's not on my box at least. There is a tgz at linuxpackages.net, though.

Edit: spelling

krussell · 08-01-2006, 07:19 AM

Hello :-)
In my PC, i get best output from mplayer.
Xine/Gxine is easy and it has a nice paylist
I was never successful to install VLC in Linux, however i am using VLC in window$ and getting good performance.
recently i found a new player codeine, it is really fast. i am using it now.

i have found that all players in linux give better picture/sound quality than that of windows.
...but i still miss hero dvd for playing old/scratched dvds.

titopoquito · 08-01-2006, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sharathg786

Hi, i'm a newbie
this is a silly question i think, but can anyone tell me if there's an equalizer in xine player? and which do u think is better of these three:

xine,
mplayer or
VLC

I recently compiled vlc on Slackware, but it was a mess. To get all dependencies I ended up with nearly 30 (!) packages I had to compile, so I can not recommend to compile vlc on yourself. If you want to try it, get one from linuxpackages.net and see if it plays your files. I found it to be very nice though with a very intuitive GUI, so checking it from a precompiled package is worth the effort I think.

Actually I'm using kaffeine which uses the xine libs but has a nicer GUI IMHO. It is not so hard to compile and is able to use the win32codecs from the MPlayer site (just install the codecs, MPlayer itself is not needed). There is a precompiled package of kaffeine at linuxpackages.net, too.