We can play songs and videos from the terminal in a GNU/Linux or Unix machine. The player is “mplayer”. MPlayer has a GUI version too. It is GMPlayer Just a few screenshots to show you how we can play songs and videos on GNU/Linux or UNIX To install this: 1. SOLARIS/OpenSoalris: http://blastwave.org 2. Ubuntu: In the terminal, type “sudo apt-get install mplayer”
MPlayer Features MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, [...]
