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I wrote a small program in mono to play a video using mplayer. To run the video i used the mplayer.exe for window, now i want to use this program in debian.

Does someone know what i should us instead of the window mplayer.exe.

thanx

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    there is no standard video player app in linux. closest might be videolan, but availability is not guaranteed. – Marc B Dec 07 '12 at 16:06
  • actually i embedded the mplayer.exe in my app, so i could play a video. So i was wondering if there is a nother mplayer.exe i could use to embed in debian –  Dec 07 '12 at 16:30

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If you're using mplayer on Windows, then you could just use mplayer on Linux. You can install it with aptitude install mplayer or aptitude install mplayer2. On Linux of course it won't have .exe as part of its name. (I'm assuming when you say you're using mplayer you mean that, and not Windows Media Player. Windows Media Player isn't available for Linux.)

There are a bunch of other choices. Your best bet for cross-platform is probably VLC, but you also have Totem, Xine, etc. You can find the Debian-packaged ones using apt-cache search, e.g., apt-cache search video player | sort | less gives a lot of things (including some things that aren't video players, unfortunately).

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  • mplayer is embedded in my application. i dont need to install it. The mplayer.exe file is in my project map. because the exe was for windows only i was wondering if someone knows what file mplayer file i could use in debian –  Dec 07 '12 at 16:37