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tlmiller
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| ^^Yup, for the longest while that's how I was watching movies. then Big Lots had a DVD player on sale for $25 so I actually picked up a standalone.
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inactive
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| Quote: | | What software do you use for playing DVDs? |
I just kinda let it default to whatever it's gonna. Right now, it's Totem. Sigh. I hate that thing.
No LinDVD for me though.
Edit: The only time I watch DVDs is when I'm burning dvds anyway though.
I mostly watch on my Philips player.
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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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Xine-ui.
I use mplayer for ripping and transcoding and watching most videos, but i find that mplayer does not handle menues, or when it does it does so in a weird manner. So i use Xine for that.
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masinick
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I use Xine, but lately I have been using mostly Kaffeine to view .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, and .wmv videos. With the right codecs and plugins Kaffeine handles all of them. |
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mauser1891
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2025 4:05 pm Post subject: Sidux DVD Player |
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Hello Folks,
I use the stock DVD player that comes with my current release of Sidux.
Dragon Player. |
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melloe
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2025 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I hate to say, it, but I play so few DVD's on the computer when there is a nice system over my left shoulder, I never paid attention. The few I have played just to check, on various distros just came up or not. It probably said but I did not pay attention. K3B, or on rare occasions brasso, for burning them.
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masinick
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2025 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| As long as you have the right codecs and playback libraries installed, all of the major media players work: Mplayer, KMPlayer, GPlayer, Xine, Kaffeine, Dragon Player, and others. I've tried several of them on systems that have the right add-ons and they all work. The prerequisite is to ensure that you have the right libraries installed, then everything works as expected; otherwise, you may not get the results that you want. |
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