[NTLUG:Discuss] bdest distro for multimedia?

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Howdy,
  Because you list DVDs, there is only one choice I know about, if you
want the capability out of the box.  Mandrake Discovery includes a
liscensed DVD player.  You can add the capability to just about any
Linux distro if you are unconcerned about the law.  I made a Mandrake
system do all this before the DMCA went into effect.  But, this is a
problem nowdays.
 As far as applications to play these multimedia files go, you should
look for Xine, Mplayer or VLC.  I like the interface and capabilities of
MPlayer, but it is a little unstable.  Xine is capable, but with a bad
user interface.  I have easily gotten Xine to where you had to bring up
a terminal window and kill the process.  VLC looks interesting and seems
to work well, but I am new to that program.  Any of these programs will
run on just about any Linux distro, but you will have to do some of the
setup yourself because some libraries can't be shipped with the
products.
Good luck,
Ralph 

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 18:10, Clay Ramsey wrote:
> by this I mean playing DVDs, MP3s, and running the variouis animations
> seen in media players.... on the Intel platform
> Mandrake?  Debian?  SuSE?