I'm running Fedora 38 (Linux version 6.6.4-100.fc38.x86_64) and need to
play a video CD I've just bought.

FWIW this is "The First Overland": probably only of interest to Landrover
expedition freaks: its film shot on the first entirely drive from London
to Singapore, entirely overland apart from crossing the Channel and the
Bosphorus. They left London 1 Sep 1955 and returned 10 months later.

The CD player that shipped with Fedora 88 is Pragha, described as
"A lightweight music player, forked of Consonance Music" and comes without
a manpage or manual. In fact, its damn-near useless for looking at the
CD's content because half its controls don't appear to worg and, although
it can be made to show an index on the CD, it will only play one of the
three items listed.

I'm certain the Fedora package library used to contain better Movie
players in the past because I've used used 'em to watch movies but the
only ones I can find in the Fedora repository are bino, haruna and
plasmatube, which I've never used and know nothing about,

My systems are all 86-X64 based: I'll want to look at movies using
on both an Intel I3 laptop and an AMD Ryzen 3 4300g desktop, both
currently running Linux version 6.6.4-100.fc38.x86_64

So, any recommendations for movie players, preferably ins who can handle a
wide range of file formats, would would be gratefully received.

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Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> wrote:
>
> So, any recommendations for movie players, preferably ins who can handle a
> wide range of file formats, would would be gratefully received.
>
>

If you are looking for something with a GUI then maybe VLC will suit
your needs.

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IanJ

gopher://gopher.icu

On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:53:25 -0000 (UTC), IanJ wrote:

> Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> So, any recommendations for movie players, preferably ins who can
>> handle a wide range of file formats, would would be gratefully
>> received.
>>
>>
>>
> If you are looking for something with a GUI then maybe VLC will suit
> your needs.

Of course! I knew there was something but its several years since I needed
it, and just plain forget about it. Thats almost certainly certainly what
I used before, but Damned if I know how and why it got deleted: almost
certainly some rebuild=from-scratch episode in the dim & distant.

Many thanks

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Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

On 13/12/2023 20:32, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 38 (Linux version 6.6.4-100.fc38.x86_64) and need to
> play a video CD I've just bought.
>
> FWIW this is "The First Overland": probably only of interest to Landrover
> expedition freaks: its film shot on the first entirely drive from London
> to Singapore, entirely overland apart from crossing the Channel and the
> Bosphorus. They left London 1 Sep 1955 and returned 10 months later.
>
> The CD player that shipped with Fedora 88 is Pragha, described as
> "A lightweight music player, forked of Consonance Music" and comes without
> a manpage or manual. In fact, its damn-near useless for looking at the
> CD's content because half its controls don't appear to worg and, although
> it can be made to show an index on the CD, it will only play one of the
> three items listed.
>
> I'm certain the Fedora package library used to contain better Movie
> players in the past because I've used used 'em to watch movies but the
> only ones I can find in the Fedora repository are bino, haruna and
> plasmatube, which I've never used and know nothing about,
>
> My systems are all 86-X64 based: I'll want to look at movies using
> on both an Intel I3 laptop and an AMD Ryzen 3 4300g desktop, both
> currently running Linux version 6.6.4-100.fc38.x86_64
>
> So, any recommendations for movie players, preferably ins who can handle a
> wide range of file formats, would would be gratefully received.
>
>
If you want to play DVD's you need a copy of libdvdcss to play encrypted
DVD's