[NTLUG:Discuss] Video player / software format

[Ralph Green, Jr.]

Howdy,
  I would have suggested mpeg until recently.  I downloaded a bunch of
conference talks from the Gnome User Conference(GUADEC) a couple of
weeks ago.  They had an extension of .ogg, which I did not even know was
a video format.  I have tried playing them on a variety of Linux
machines and they played fine on every machine.  Now, I just need to
figure out what they really are.  My SuSE 9.2 machine, for example is
kind of funny.  If I select the file in Nautilus and tell it to play, it
does fine.  If I open up Mplayer and use its file open dialog, then ogg
format does not show up in video formats, but if I select it in audio
formats, it plays fine, including the video.  Bottom line is that it
played fine everywhere.  If you want to try the videos, look here:
  http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/6uadec/

Good luck,
Ralph 

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 12:54 -0500, Dennis wrote:
> I am interested in distributing video, and want it to play on Linux with 
> minimum problems by users who have installed directly out of the box, on 
> most of the distributions, and of course, need to also include Microsoft 
> (but am sure that is the least of the problems).