KM Player that comes pre installaed in PC Linux can play more media types than Kaffeine that comes with Opensuse.
Update : 13.3.08
GOM player for windows does an excellent job of previewing incomplete AVI files. While KM player can play partial files, it can't compare with GOM's capabilities. I'll need to examine the WINE way to GOM. Probably Virtual Dub for Linux exists as well.
Update : 27.3.08
On closer inspection I found that the reason Kaffeine did not play as many media files as KMPlayer was because of the lack of codecs. The Kaffeine in PC Linux (it also has the MPlayer, which is also available under windows) plays those files well. KMPLayer cannot control audio for the video, rather it controls system wide audio. So if you want to listen to some other music while watching a movie, you can't with KMplayer. Kaffeine manages to do this well.
Why would Opensuse not include the XVID codec which is opensource (I think) and is needed to play most AVIs is a question begging for an anwer.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Media handling capabilities
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