Playing Video
There are many different digital video formats produced for today's computer platforms, and it seems like there are different standards for different operating systems. Fortunately, Linux comes with several players that can handle different forms of video successfully. Some of the digital video formats include
Amiga—Amiga MovieSetter animations
AVI—Microsoft's Audio Video Interleave format
FLI/FLC—Autodesk's Flic Animation format
GIF87/89a—Animated GIF files
MPEG—Moving Picture Expert Group
QuickTime—Apple's QuickTime
RealPlayer—RealPlayer streaming audio and video
SGI—SGI Movie Format Files
Utah Raster Toolkit—Run Length Encoded images
One of most common (and versatile) video players for Linux and X11 is Marc Podlipec's xanim client. You ...
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