[NTLUG:Discuss] bdest distro for multimedia?

Fri Jan 23 10:48:20 CST 2004

Mandrake Discovery???? hadn't heard of that one, but I am still pretty new to Linux....

anyone got a SuSE review??  their boxed editions at BArnes & Noble looked pretty nicely done.
> 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? 
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