Play VCD on your Linux Box

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Xtheater Screenshots

http://xtheater.sourceforge.net/pythontheater/pythontheater.png

http://xtheater.sourceforge.net/screenshots/1_0_0p1.png


http://xtheater.sourceforge.net/screenshots/fullmpegshot.png


http://xtheater.sourceforge.net/screenshots/fullavishot.png


http://xtheater.sourceforge.net/downloads/

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Installation
Installation of Xtheater is not the easiest install in the world. But it is also far from the hardest install. First you must install the following packages:
X11 - Required for everything. All modern *nix include this
Glib/GTK - Required for everything, 1.2.x
SDL - Required for everything, 1.2.x
SMPEG - Required for MP3/MPG/VCD playback, 0.4.3 or higher.
avifile - Required for AVI/ASF playback, from CVS repository
Avifile can be compiled without qt, so don't worry if you do not have qt, it will just not build some of the sample applications, sych as aviplay.

If you wish to install as much from binary packages, in general, the following package names will indicate binary packages of requirements listed above:
glib
glib-devel
gtk+
gtk+-devel
SDL
SDL-devel
smpeg
smpeg-devel
For AVI/ASF playback, you will have to get it from CVS, no binary packages are available. Note also that to get libaviplay to work properly it needs to be linked with libXxf86vm on some systems. do this by adding -lXxf86vm to the LIBS line of the lib/Makefile from the avifile tree.


ROX Application Directory
Xtheater as downloaded is an application directory. After meeting all the requirements listed above, you can just click on the Xtheater directory under ROX and it will automatically configure and compile itself as a relocatable application directory for use with ROX. If you do not use ROX or want to keep the install of Xtheater standard with other installs, continue. Otherwise, clicking on the Xtheater directory should be enough to get it ready to run with ROX.


Standard Installation
After you have installed all prerequisite pacakges, you run ./configure. Before running configure, you may wish to read up on GL support. It can be enabled at this stage, but is not configured by default, for reasons explained in the GL section linked to previously.

After you have ran ./configure in the Xtheater directory to your liking, make install will put all the files in the right place. By default, the configuration is stored at /usr/local/Xtheater/config. the binary is placed at /usr/local/bin/xtheater, player plugins are in /usr/local/Xtheater/player/, and ui plugins are in /usr/local/Xtheater/ui/. None of this needs to be known for install, but is provided for reference here.

[BlueBird]

where i can find all those packages?
I did download that Xtheater file but it in .gz so how i can ungunzip it?
Please show me, thanks!

[VuThu]

muo^'n gunzip file: here are example

file name: thuynga.tar.gz

tar -zxvf thuynga.tar.gz <-- this will extract all of gz & tar file out

if you wan to know how to use any command on Linux ...Man page is good way to lean

type man gunzip

http://www.gzip.org/