If you lived in the '90s and tried to run multiplayer Quake across a 56K modem, you may have fond memories (or not) of MPlayer. The '90s PC gaming service is coming back after being defunct for 15 ...

GameSpy Industries Inc., an Irvine-based online gaming company, said Wednesday that it will buy a Web site from HearMe that matches online gamers, for more than $20 million. GameSpy, formed in 1995, ...

Get ready for a blast from the past as Mplayer.com, the '90s-era online PC gaming and matchmaking service, is making a comeback after going dark nearly 15 years ago. As Engadget writes, an entity by ...

In the ongoing saga of What doesn't work after the upgrade? I tried to run my logo-overlay script the other day to add the Linux Journal logo to a video and, as you may have guessed, it didn't work.

I have used DVD Decryptor in Windows and I have ripped the files to my HDD.<BR><BR>I would like to use mplayer to play these DVDs.<BR><BR>Currently I do this for each relevant file,<BR><BR>mplayer ...

When I use mplayer, whether in X or with the framebuffer I do the following:<BR><BR>mplayer -fs -framedrop Videos/filename.avi<BR><BR>If I do that it goes into fullscreen mode but the video stays at ...

Here we introduce you to a media player that’s very different from common Windows players. Mplayer-a media play-back software originally designed for Linux systems-now has precompiled packages ...

I use VLC as my media player of choice on my Mac. Although Quicktime is a great app which provides a good dose of eye candy as well, VLC is compatible with almost every format out of the box - without ...

What should the Linux movie player of your dreams do? It should play any movie/video that you throw at it. No questions asked—just play. It should allow seeking and volume control with the keyboard ...