[ale] substitutes for MS Media Player & QuickTime Player ?

[bpitts at LearnLink.Emory.Edu (Brian D. Pitts)]

Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org> writes:
>Are there Linux substitutes and if yes, how compatible are they   ?

Compatible in terms of codecs?

Quicktime > 6 is normally MPEG-4. Anything older is ususally Sorenson.
libavformat/libavcodec from the FFmpeg project can handle both of them and
their associated container formats, so any player that uses these should be
okay. This included MPlayer, VLC Media Player, any player that uses xine-lib as
the backend, and players that use GStreamer as their backend as long as you
install the right plugin (on Ubuntu it's gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg).

WIndows Media Video requires binary codecs available from
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs or
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ . I'm don't know what players can access
these directly other then MPlayer. On my Ubuntu system for Totem (with the
GStreamer backend) to use them I think I had to install gstreamer0.10-pitfdll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_media_players

-Brian

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