19.4 Playing Movie Files

You can choose between several movie players shipped with your SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Kaffeine is the default KDE movie player and can be run with several back-ends, such as Xine and MPlayer.

The formats you can view with Kaffeine depends on the back-end (by default, Xine is used). Xine interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available. For more information, refer to https://xinehq.de/.

Kaffeine can also play multimedia streamed over the Internet and can be used as a plug-in for Konqueror. It provides the usual options for playing files in full screen mode, navigating through files, and more. You can also take a snapshot of the video and save it as an image.

Apart from Kaffeine, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop also ships RealPlayer for Linux. RealPlayer supports RealAudio, RealVideo, Ogg Vorbis, Theora, and more.