Linux Players List and how to install

Top Players in LINUX

1.VLC player
2.mplayer
3.xine
4.Kaffeine
5.totem
6.real player

Players Installation procedure follows:

1. VLC Media Player
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs

download vlc player

in Ubuntu

To install VLC, open a terminal and run following command:
sudo apt-get install vlc

in redhat

download vlc and open a terminal window and use the following command:

"yum install vlc"

2. MPlayer

Description:
It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.

in ubuntu

Install mplayer using the following command

sudo apt-get install mplayer

other way to install players
download mplayer
./configure --enable-gui

note : ithout the --enable-gui switch, you'll get a command-line-based playermake

su (if you're not already root)

make install


3. Xine
Descrption :
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

In ubuntu
sudo aptitude install xine-ui libxine-extracodecs

in other linux flavors
your can download from the site

link to site
after downloading run below command in the terminal
yum install xine


4. Kaffeine
Description:
Kaffeine is a full featured Multimedia-Player for kde

In other flavors
click for kaffeine download
yum install kaffeine

5. Totem
Description:
GNOME desktop environment based on xine-lib or GStreamer. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation

in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install totem-gstreamer

in other flavors
yum install totem

6. Real player
Description:
Plays RealAudio, RealVideo, and now RealFlash

For all flavors download from
link to download

Prompt $ chmod +x Realplayer10Gold.bin
prompt$ ./Realplayer10Gold.bin

Some KDE player

Xt7-Player
KMPlayer
KMPlayer
M.O.V.E. (My Own Video Encoder)
MyRT
'Q' DVD-Author
Kdenlive
sMovieDB
SMPlayer