after a few goes and realising it's 100% of EVIL, i gave suse8.2 a go.it's actually fairly nice and tolerable, but just not usuable for most things.
(
bananaman,
Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:35,
archived)
oh ans secondly.i have a p3 450. it's a bit fucked if i want to do more than one thing with windows. with linux i've burned cds and watched films. at the same time.
( tef,
Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:36,
archived)
linux won't play any video files in avi format,i can hear but not see. the only ones i can see are mpegs, it seems. and despite only having 112megs of ram (which is less than the minimum spec for xp, i'm pretty sure), windows copes a lot better with doing lots of things at once than linux so far.
( bananaman,
Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:38,
archived)
mines a bit horrifically customized.barely anything running, new shiny kernel, premtive patches, etc etc :)
( tef,
Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:39,
archived)
have you tried xine?It copes with most things I've tried it with so far (dvd, divx, avi, wmv, other stuff). Probably the best linux media player I've seen.
(
barnesy,
Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:43,
archived)
it's ok.i prefer mplayer.
it isn't as friendly but it's a lot more powerful.
(it isn't as friendly but it's a lot more powerful.
tef,
Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:46,
archived)
I'll have a look.I need to sort out my media players - something has broken xine's dvd playback. I wussed out and got someone else to install it, so I'm a bit stuffed!
( barnesy,
Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:51,
archived)
mplayer! big w/y/h!mplayer is the finest piece of software.
mate o' mine, when he can't get a video to run on windoze, he boots up linux and mplayer just yums it up!
me, i haven't had windoze installed here for 3 years and there's little i can't do with linux. what the hell is it you people need to do? get viruses? install spyware?
(,
Sun 3 Aug 2003, 0:04,
archived)
mate o' mine, when he can't get a video to run on windoze, he boots up linux and mplayer just yums it up!
me, i haven't had windoze installed here for 3 years and there's little i can't do with linux. what the hell is it you people need to do? get viruses? install spyware?