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dbasetrinity Apprentice
Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 167
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:58 am Post subject: |
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i like VLC the best but from time to time i end up using Totem or mplayer |
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Crazy Man n00b
Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Richardson, Texas, USA
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:09 am Post subject: |
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VLC ftw! |
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djpearman n00b
Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Germany
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:42 am Post subject: |
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Kaffeine (which is essentially xine in disguise). I've heard lots of good things about mplayer, so I might give that a whirl when I have some spare time. |
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ahubu Guru
Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 400 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:50 am Post subject: |
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I think we need someone who goes after each and every thread which discusses mplayer, xine and vlc, and finally counts all favours, makes a final verdict and posts it in a sticky in the multimedia forum. Okay, who's going to do it? Volunteers please
We really need closure on this one... (and while you're at it, do it for emacs/vi and gnome/kde too...)
and then do a:
DELETE FROM threads where keyword='mplayer' AND keyword='xine' AND keyword='vlc';
thanks!
I bet a lot of veterans 'll become gurus _________________ Anne // Light travels faster than sound. That's why people appear bright until
you hear them speak. -Unknown |
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frogg n00b
Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 20
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:36 am Post subject: |
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ahubu wrote: | I think we need someone who goes after each and every thread which discusses mplayer, xine and vlc, and finally counts all favours, makes a final verdict and posts it in a sticky in the multimedia forum. Okay, who's going to do it? Volunteers please :)
We really need closure on this one... (and while you're at it, do it for emacs/vi and gnome/kde too...) |
Check this out: http://www.tarunz.org/~vassilii/srom/
Just quickly doing my own SROM for the players in google, I get:
Code: | sucks rules,rocks
xine 255 464
mplayer 652 1370
kaffeine 22 27
totem 389 374
ogle 4 131
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ahubu Guru
Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 400 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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I bet it took you two months and a day to count those :p
Good work, I love statistics. It's good to see that mplayer is winning, even though I must say totem is becoming better and better: I even use it myself now (because mplayer is still lacking a _good_ gtk2 skin (I already have the industrial one)). _________________ Anne // Light travels faster than sound. That's why people appear bright until
you hear them speak. -Unknown |
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moAlleyCat n00b
Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:29 am Post subject: |
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I prefer mplayer -vo aa:driver='curses'. |
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asiobob Veteran
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1375 Location: Bamboo Creek
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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The only issue I have ogle is it can't handle the interlace/deinterlace thing properly. Or has no support for it.
I normally use mplayer, and I wish Totem with the gstreamer backend stops sucking and works because it will take off with new users. It has improved in the past few gnome versions |
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filterpunk n00b
Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 71 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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I generally use Xine with Codeine as a GUI. Really lightweight and plays most everything i've thrown at it. _________________ Gentoo 2.6.17-r4 AMD64 | AMD Athlon64 3200+ Manchester, 1GB Mushkin PC-3500 Black Hi-Perf Level II, Asus V9999GT 128MB |
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mariux2 Apprentice
Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 242
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Borderless, GUI-less, always on top mplayer.
No question. |
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ichbinsisyphos Guru
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 547
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:10 am Post subject: |
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i think vlc is the most userfriendly media player available on linux. and thats actually pretty poor
mplayer is great for the browser-plug-in and mencoder, but the gui sucks.
kaffeine could be ok too in terms of usability , but im a gnome-boy (now xfce4) and i find it were hard to look at that kde-apps. |
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ahubu Guru
Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 400 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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ichbinsisyphos wrote: | i think vlc is the most userfriendly media player available on linux. (...)
mplayer is great for the browser-plug-in and mencoder, but the gui sucks.
(...) but im a gnome-boy (...) |
In that case I would strongly urge you to try totem: I love mplayer myself, but in terms of userfriendliness totem is great. In fact, I rarely have a file that doesn't play with totem anymore, and the gui is perfect. It supports everything I need. It can even play dvd's. Maybe you can find the odd format that it won't handle, but I haven't found any recently.
In terms of speed: mplayer.
In terms of gui + userfriendliness: totem all the way. _________________ Anne // Light travels faster than sound. That's why people appear bright until
you hear them speak. -Unknown |
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Sachankara l33t
Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 696 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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ahubu wrote: | In that case I would strongly urge you to try totem: I love mplayer myself, but in terms of userfriendliness totem is great. | Unfortunately Totem is a bit too newbie friendly sometimes. For example, it doesn't allow one to remove the list of previously played movies and music. It might not be a problem for everyone, but for some, it is. _________________ Gentoo Hardened Linux 2.6.21 + svorak (Swedish dvorak) |
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