Re: Widget to play movies

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:45 -0200, Arthur Maciel wrote:
> Hi, guys.
> I want to have a widget that can show movies, like avi files.
> I'm not sure which one to use. Could you point to me documentation on
> that?
> Thank you very much.

i don't believe that any such widget exists. there are so many issues
associated with playback of video on linux that it is hard (not
impossible, just hard) to imagine encapsulating it all as a widget.

the kinds of issues i am referring to relate to codecs, not basic video
display technology.

--p