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Shockwaver Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 123
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: Best Video player |
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I was wandering... 'm going to plaback mostly .avi .mpg and .mkv (for the HD) with multiple streams for audio and subs (not necesserly hardsubs)... what player is best for this?... vlc? mplayer? |
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vaxbrat l33t
Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 731 Location: DC Burbs
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject: players |
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I find myself switching back and forth between kmplayer and xine. I've noticed some mkv files causing excessive frame drops in the mplayer backend that the xine ffmpeg backend can handle. However I like the mouse wheel shuttling in mplayer over the arrow keys nav in xine for some things. |
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Shockwaver Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 123
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:07 am Post subject: |
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not even thinkin of vlc?.. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Hi, I use Vlc and smplayer |
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Shockwaver Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: |
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d2_racing wrote: | Hi, I use Vlc and smplayer |
mmm.. when one and when the other?.. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:58 am Post subject: |
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In random order
I use a lot smplayer lately, but vlc is pretty nice too.
If I had to choose, then I would pick mplayer. |
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Tadeas Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 113 Location: Prague
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:45 am Post subject: |
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I almost always use Kaffeine (xine) but now that there's no Kaffeine for KDE 4 yet I use SMplayer. As you can see everyone has his or her favourite one, so you'll have to decide yourself . If you use KDE then Kaffeine is the first choice otherwise I'd go with SMplayer and if you're not happy with it, you can try VLC, which is supposedly one of the very best players available even on Windows platform... |
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g-user n00b
Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 42 Location: United States of Russia
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:38 am Post subject: |
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I think Vlc and smplayer(mplayer) best players. Anyway i't your PC, use all what you like. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:31 am Post subject: |
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In fact, smplayer is pretty nice actually, and yeah use what ever player that you want, but use one |
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slackline Veteran
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 1471 Location: /uk/sheffield
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:36 am Post subject: |
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(gnome-)mplayer here or occasionally vlc
Will probably switch to vlc permanently if I can get it to play upnp streams from my mediatomb server.
slack _________________ "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." - Donald Knuth |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:38 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if I'm right on that, but if you compile mplayer with the gtk Use Flags, you endup with a big warning saying that Gmplayer is no more supported or something. |
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GODhack Guru
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 389 Location: Lithuania
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:58 am Post subject: |
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Yes you are right. It shows suggestion to make kmplayer or gnome-mplayer instead of gmplayer -> how lame.
I still wonder why mplayer USE(gtk) != gnome-mplayer. _________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jtmOZaIvS0 |
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szczerb Veteran
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 1709 Location: Poland => Lodz
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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vlc seems to give me lowest cpu usage with 720p content, so I started using it exclusively - works great. |
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Earthwings Bodhisattva
Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 7753 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Multimedia to Duplicate Threads. See best all around movie player? and similar threads (please search). _________________ KDE |
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