Linux/Xine: Plays For Sure!

Good news to all VCD/DVD lovers! Do you ever have a movie that you always wanted to watch, but despite all your glorious efforts of trying it on every pc possible, can only get it to play on a vcd? Does Wi**d*** always say their pc "plays for sure!" and fails to play your movie? (damn) Well let's see who really does...

I tried this on a Mandrake Linux 9.2 (got this installed since I am not connected to the internet, old version though, new ones are called Mandriva Linux). You may also do this on Ubuntu, any version would do. Now I installed xine on Mandrake by going to the installation packages section, while on Ubuntu, you may launch the terminal and type

apt-get install xine

This will automatically connect your distro to the online CVS repository and find the latest version of xine for you (well that always goes well for the linux os). Now that you have xine, try launching it by opening it from the applications menu (ubuntu) / k menu (mandrake) (this actually depends on the environment being used). Now try inserting a vcd to test your installation. If the movie is fine, try loading the vcd you have always wanted to play. Test your luck. I can really testify that the cd I had was new but it didnt play at all, now it is old and scratchy, who would presume that it will still show? Well, I can presume now. Xine reads everything for me. Btw, I finished the whole movie last night. No glitch.

Who "plays for sure" now?


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Xine Headquarters - the home of Xine