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Viewing Video

20191230 All forms of video viewing are supported by Linux, including video files such as avi, DVDs and SVCDs.

Video players include totem, xine-ui, mplayer, and vlc. totem will seek to install packages for any codecs that are not installed.

The multi-media viewer xine-ui comes with a skinned graphical user interface. Supported keyboard shortcuts include:

  gui    g          pause     p          full screen     f
  aspect a          subtitles . ,        audio channel   + -
  chapt  PgUp PgDn  chapt %   0-9        audio sync      <- -> Home
  volume v V        enlarge <> M-1,2,3   1:1 aspect      s

The following table summarise some of the file format capabilities of various players:

Player	mov	avi	wmv	rm	mpg	mp3
Xine	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
VLC	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
Mplayer	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
RealPlayer	no	no	no	yes	no	yes