These are great times for watching movies on your desktop. There have never been so many options available. Word had been going around that the special effects for Titanic were made on a Linux cluster. Well, this is not true anymore.
Video is very much alive and kicking on Linux.
This article is a look at the video libraries and players available on Linux. Loki software is more famous for making Linux gaming a whole new experience. Smpeg is an mpeg player, which can do both audio and video playback. Smpeg is now part of the Red Hat distribution. It also supports fullscreen display using SDL .