This article is the follow up of Comprehensive MPlayer Guide I: Introduction. Introduction To acquire a good MPlayer setup, I recommend not to install the version packaged by your favorite distribution. The mainstream linux distributions like Ubuntu ship “the latest” but very dated release of MPlayer. Their latest release, v1.0rc3, dates from 30 May 2010. [...]
This article is meant as a comprehensive guide to acquire a complete multimedia experience, in particular everything that is video related: from installation and playback to encoding, desktop integration and much more . A pleasant side effect is that it will play all types of audio you throw at it as well. I will try [...]
It doesn’t happen very often but today I got impressed by an application called Cooliris. Cooliris is a browser plug-in that allows you to browse images, videos and a lot more with a cinematic look and feel. Cooliris supports the 3 most popular browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Windows and OS X were since [...]
I already mentioned that mpd & ncmpc++ is a great music player. I imagine a console music player can be a little discouraging and realized the other day that major desktop environments like Gnome don’t have built-in support for music playback control through mpd. If you assign a key to play/pause and next/previous song in the [...]