[Klug-general] media players

[Andrew Spode Miller]

For gaming, I've had much better luck with WINE than VirtualBox - in fact, I
know I've played Pirates! via WINE (and didn't like it).

Make sure you're using the WINE repos and not Ubuntu, there is a dramatic
difference in compatability. Also - although I don't know if this is because
I run dual monitors - I find I get much much better results if I specify a
virtual desktop in the WINE configuration. It means everything runs inside a
Window, but it's not the end of the world and you can always make the Window
the size of your screen and position it so.

Spode


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Dan Attwood <danattwood at googlemail.com>wrote:

> there was a brief discussion on media players at the last meeting and
> amazement at how banshee had finally got library watching.
>
> I few days ago however my copy of linux format arrived and they had an
> article on subsonic (*subsonic*.sourceforge.net/)
>
> It's a browser based music streamer - think jinzora. However there is no
> need for a database and it's a piece of cake to set up. A bit of port
> forwarding and I'm now sat at work listening to fruitbats first solo effort
> streaming from my home. It's also got an android client, podcast support and
> wap interface. they only lsight catch I had was that it wouldn't work on my
> creaky hardy server so I set up a virtual karmic server for it.
>
> Also following on from the last meet I got pirates! to with 3d support in
> virtualbox. Well I say work.....the cut scenes are fine but the game itself
> runs like a st bernard so I'm going to give David H's wine suggestion
> another go at the weekend if I get time.
>
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