Multimedia :: video playback - which software

I'm using DSL right now on my notebook (2 GHz, 256 MB RAM) because my Wind*ws installation crashed (apparently due to a HD problem). So I copied all the data to a new disk and boot DSL from CD (I want to decide later on which OS to install on the new HD).

As I have quite a bit of video files (mostly WMV format) I need a video player capable of playing these. Which one would you recommend? I tried mplayer and xine so far, like xine more (from a look and feel point of view) but I'm not sure about it.

Looking forward to your comments.

Michael

Mplayer + codecpak should let you play a lot of different codecs.

Also, you could try and apt-get install vlc as an alternative.

the vlc version is only a very old release. i think 0.2.8

any way to download/install an newer verion of vlc without compiling all needed libraries?

original here.