Hello everyone,
Could you please tell me what is your favorit application for viewing dvd cds?
I have one remote control that is supported from linux… and it will be great if the play pause button are recognized by the application.
I would like to thank you in advance for your help
Best Regards
Alex
I think by far and away most people will recommend VideoLAN (VLC) as your single universal viewer for everything including DVD/VCD.
Although I had to install using zypper pointing directly to the VLC website repository, in another thread in this forum someone else says you can successfully install using the Packman repo (It didn’t work right for me).
Note that currently the default SuSE link to Packman (in your Install/Remove software Community Repositories) is down, but if you set that up and then modify the server to a different mirror in the following list you’ll be OK
http://michaeleberhart.net/linux/opensus/10_2/addon/packmanmirrors/
Tony
this is because you have still packages from that vlc repo. the only thing you need from the vlc repo is libdvdcss.
when i was using kde as the desktop environment of my choise, i found kaffeine realy nice. since i was starting using gnome i use vlc and smplayer. you found both in the packman repo. remember the only thing you need form vlc is the libdvdcss for watching dvds
I recently noticed that pacman now has vlc - what’s the advantage of using the pacman repo over the vlc repo?
if you already using packman to get additional packages which were not shipped with nonoss or oss repository, it would be easier to leave vlc functional. some libraries which also in the vlc repo are not compatible with the ones from packman and leaves you with a not functional vlc if you mixing them.
I think (correct me if wrong) that you’re really saying that it shouldn’t really make any difference which repo you use but it may make a difference whether you’re using just one or more application management systems.
It shouldn’t make a diff whether you’re using the SuSE repos, the Packman or any other repos if they’re all managed by YAST.
It could make a difference using zypper, YUM or any other than YAST because one software manager may remove files needed by an application installed by another manager because each software manager builds its own separate database of installed apps (and dependencies).
As for whether one repo over another makes a diff… Probably maybe. You can assume that the application’s own repo will have the latest stable and non-stable versions, other repos might not have the latest but almost certainly will function fine.
Tony
I think it should not make a difference, but I also think it does make a difference.
A packager for an application, can have control over aspects that a developer of the application has made optional.
There are cases where one can install multimedia applications from the videolan repository, which breaks the functionality of applications from the packman repository, because the packagers of the different repositories, put the codecs in different locations where the applications from a different repository can not find them.
Ideally there would be perfect agreement on codec location and configuration setups between packagers, but that unfortunately is not always the case.
Well the problem with VideoLan is that their packages may not be full compatible with Packman’s also they have addition packages which you may not really want. If you mix something may break. There are lots of good reasons to have Packman. The only reason to have VideoLan is libdvdcss. So get that one package and disable Video Land and use Packman for the VLC packages. If you have already installed from VideoLan then you can switch using Yast. Select the Repo tab and select Packman and switch all installed Packages to Packman as the source and disable or remove VideoLan.
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:06:02 GMT, tsu2
<tsu2@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>l1zard;2228240 Wrote:
>> if you already using packman to get additional packages which were not
>> shipped with nonoss or oss repository, it would be easier to leave vlc
>> functional. some libraries which also in the vlc repo are not compatible
>> with the ones from packman and leaves you with a not functional vlc if
>> you mixing them.
>
>I think (correct me if wrong) that you’re really saying that it
>shouldn’t really make any difference which repo you use but it may make
>a difference whether you’re using just one or more application
>management systems.
>
>It shouldn’t make a diff whether you’re using the SuSE repos, the
>Packman or any other repos if they’re all managed by YAST.
>
>It could make a difference using zypper, YUM or any other than YAST
>because one software manager may remove files needed by an application
>installed by another manager because each software manager builds its
>own separate database of installed apps (and dependencies).
>
>As for whether one repo over another makes a diff… Probably maybe.
>You can assume that the application’s own repo will have the latest
>stable and non-stable versions, other repos might not have the latest
>but almost certainly will function fine.
>
>Tony
It has been my learning experience over the past several months that a
totally packman preffered approach for multimedia works better and has
less problems. YMMV.
vlc and smplayer are both good for viewing videos