GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams |
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Viewing Video |
20191230 All forms of video viewing are supported by Linux, including video files such as avi, DVDs and SVCDs.
Video players include totem, xine-ui, mplayer, and vlc. totem will seek to install packages for any codecs that are not installed.
The multi-media viewer xine-ui comes with a skinned graphical user interface. Supported keyboard shortcuts include:
gui g pause p full screen f aspect a subtitles . , audio channel + - chapt PgUp PgDn chapt % 0-9 audio sync <- -> Home volume v V enlarge <> M-1,2,3 1:1 aspect s
The following table summarise some of the file format capabilities of various players:
Player | mov | avi | wmv | rm | mpg | mp3 |
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Xine | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes |
VLC | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes |
Mplayer | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes |
RealPlayer | no | no | no | yes | no | yes |