hello, i am using SUSE 11.0, KDE 4.0 ,i had installed “Totem movie
player, vlc media player,real player”
totem and VLC are able to play .avi format movies.
when i click on *.avi files, they are opening, immediately the window
of player vanishes(i.e. they are closing without playing ). Same *.avi
files are playing well in windows XP.
As general rule, install -always- pm versions, it means packmann, even
if the version is lower.
Now:
keep the vlc repo open, that is a great player. From there add also
libdvdcss, necessary to play DVDs
Install also Xine and Xine ui in packman version, perhaps you will
need some changes in your packages to satisfy the dependencies. From
there install also w32codec-all, mplayer and smplayer, a great front-end
for mplayer. Note: Xine, MPlayer and VCL are separate players each one
with own and separate codecs.
Depending from your system, software, running compiz or not and so on,
you will need to configure your video output, because linux has at this
subject many different interfaces. Here an easy and fast way: open
smplayer and select a movie, it doesn’t matter if you don’t see
anything, the movie must be just running. Select options-preferences and
from there Video. Under “Output driver” are listed all valuables
interfaces. Keeping the movie running, select each time a different
driver, push the button apply and without closing the window check if
behind you see the movie. I get the best quality by X11(slow), but is
really slow, what means that I get dropped frames by scenes with fast
movement or much audio. You can adjust that in options- performances-
cache. Try just 4 times the given value and 4000 for DVD. It should
work.
Apply the same adjustment or another one witch you now as working by
the other players. The nomenclature is always different, so, buffer
instead cache or amount of kept frames, but now that is easy to guess.