Windows Media player classic

[Beatbreaker]

Hi, i'm writing this because i've tried almost every media player that Ubuntu has to offer and i still can't find anything i like

To name a few:

I've tried Totem and for some reason it plays media at slow motion
I've tried Kaffeine but it crashes when i search through movies
I've tried VLC but I don't like it's layout, full screen mode has no controls in it, and i can't control anything with my mouse in it (apart from full screen).
I'm pretty sure i tried XINE too but that didn't work out either.

I loved Windows Media Player Classic. It looked like a piece of crap, no fancy stuff on it but it could play everything under the sun. I could stop, start, control volume and full screen with my mouse

Is there anything in Ubuntu that comes anywhere close to that?

[avtolle]

I believe in VLC you need to install a plugin to allow control via a mouse (other than the full screen selection). Under Settings>>Preferences, in the left window there is a selection for Interfaces. Take a look at that (expand the list) and see if there isn't something there that may help you.

[balachandarlinks]

Installing Codecs

Open a terminal and type :

sudo -s -H or sudo -i

and then enter your user password.

After that :

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

To be upgraded. Please check that you have all repositories enabled in Software sources.

Then these commands :

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3

Now you have the most of the codecs needed to play most of multimedia you may own.



Now all ur players will work fine....

[Beatbreaker]

I believe in VLC you need to install a plugin to allow control via a mouse (other than the full screen selection). Under Settings>>Preferences, in the left window there is a selection for Interfaces. Take a look at that (expand the list) and see if there isn't something there that may help you.

I've checked that out, There's a "mouse gestures" section in the "control interfaces" part of preferences. It does nothing when i click on it though. i read on the VLC forums that it would be working in the Nightly Updates version 0.9.xx but it still didn't change anything - and it's even more annoying because i've got split control window and movie windows.

do other people get at least some controls when in full screen mode?

[Beatbreaker]

Installing Codecs

Then these commands :

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3

all of those commands did something but not this last one - the top half did but there looks like there's something missing from the bottom half

..or should that be all one line?

[avtolle]

That should have been all one line. To get these additional codecs, etc., at the terminal

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg  libbdvdread3

[Beatbreaker]

Thanks for your help avtolle but no changes made

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

the default "media player" and gstreamer are still playing AVIs and other media like in slow motion.

[balachandarlinks]

For me after installing this totem plays all medias fine......
Do u have good amount of ram ,..i have 1 GB......

[Beatbreaker]

I've got a gig, i'm pretty sure it's DDR2 running at a pretty fast speed

VLC plays the videos at the proper speed, i just can't stand the layout - when i go to full screen mode i don't have any controls, and can't control anything with my mouse.

[halln]

I've got a gig, i'm pretty sure it's DDR2 running at a pretty fast speed

VLC plays the videos at the proper speed, i just can't stand the layout - when i go to full screen mode i don't have any controls, and can't control anything with my mouse.

have you tried mplayer at all mate? I think this is the one you like.