Multimedia and Games

Playing VCD and DVD

There are several excellent applications readily available for you to use to play VCD and DVD media. Here we shall look at two of them: Xine and Mplayer. These can also play CD and digital audio music files.

Xine

The xine application may be used to play VCD and DVD. You can start xine from the Main Menu:

Applications --> Sound & Video --> Xine

The xine user interface is highly intuitive as it resembles a normal VCD/DVD player with all the basic control knobs and buttons.

To play a VCD place the VCD into the CD-ROM drive and click on the VCDO button on the Xine control panel.

To play a DVD place the DVD into the DVD drive and click on the DVD button on the Xine control panel.

The volume control can be adjusted by clicking on the volume control button.

In the event that the Xine control panel interferes with the playing screen image, you can hide it by right-clicking on the panel itself and select GUI visibility.

This will hide the Xine control panel. To bring back the Xine control panel right-click on the playing screen and select GUI visibility again. Xine is a very powerful multimedia application with many features. It can also play audio CDs as well as digital audio files.