Software to watch videos

[albrpi]

Hello, good evening to everyone. My name is Albert, I've just received the Raspberry Pi as a Christmas present and I'm very happy. I was installing some software but for the video and audio I can not find anything. I installed VLC but the image is freezing after few seconds. Can someone help me, please? And if you know some mp3 player as well I would appreciated, thank you very much

[dom]

omxplayer should be pre-installed on raspbian, and is hardware accelerated.
You might also want to check out openelec or raspbmc.

[mahjongg]

I installed VLC but the image is freezing after few seconds.

That is because VLC is attempting to only use the CPU for decoding the video, and it should do that with the help of the GPU, as the CPU is too slow for the task, but it doesn't. perhaps one day there will be a version of VLC that is hardware accelerated, and does use the GPU, but not this one. In the meantime there are specific PI players that do.

[albrpi]

Ok, I read some posts, I don't want my Raspberry Pi as a media center, I only want a program to watch some videos that I have in a usb drive.Could you tell me some program? Thank you

[dom]

Ok, I read some posts, I don't want my Raspberry Pi as a media center, I only want a program to watch some videos that I have in a usb drive.Could you tell me some program? Thank you

omxplayer. It is preinstalled. Type:
omxplayer <file>

[mahjongg]

omxplayer http://elinux.org/Omxplayer