Blogging Ottinger (tim)Video Player
My row-mates on my last flight were trying to play their DVD in Windows, but were having a very tough time of it. They eventually switched over to a first-person-shooter game instead. If you use windows (or anything else) let me recommend VLC, the videolan client which can play all kinds of movies well.
Sadly, it looks like my thinkpad’s dvd drive has gone south, but until it did I could watch just about anything with VLC. I still use it to watch avi, mpg, ogg, mp3, and a several other media formats.
I think that the videolan people have done some great work, though I’ve never looked at their code, just used it. Some of my friends still prefer the Linux products Xine and MPlayer, and I admit I use them from time to time out of curiosity.
