7.4 Playing Movies

NLD includes the following utilities for playing movies on your desktop:

7.4.1 Kaffeine

Kaffeine is a multimedia player that plays CDs and VCDs. Kaffeine can also decode multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from your local disks as well as display multimedia streams from the Internet.

To launch Kaffeine, click NMultimediaVideo PlayerKaffeine.

Figure 113 Kaffeine Media Player

For more information, see Kaffeine Player.

7.4.2 Totem

Totem Movie Player lets you play MPEG and AVI movies and supports playback of DVDs, VCDs, and audio CDs. In addition to playing video and audio files, Totem Movie Player lets you view video in different aspect ratios and zoom levels, play video at full screen, perform seeks, and create playlists. Totem Movie Player does not play some codecs, QuickTime*, Windows Media files, and copy-protected DVDs.

To launch the player, click NMultimediaVideo PlayerTotem Movie Player.

Figure 114 Totem Movie Player

Click MoviePlay VCD or MoviePlay DVD to start playback of a VCD or DVD. Totem offers menu support for DVDs on the Go menu. Movie streams can be fetched via the network—click MovieOpen Location and enter the URL. You can take screen shots by clicking EditTake Screenshot.