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dbasetrinity
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i like VLC the best but from time to time i end up using Totem or mplayer
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VLC ftw!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kaffeine 8) (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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PostPosted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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! :twisted:

I bet a lot of veterans 'll become gurus
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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)).
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I prefer mplayer -vo aa:driver='curses'.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I generally use Xine with Codeine as a GUI. Really lightweight and plays most everything i've thrown at it.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Borderless, GUI-less, always on top mplayer.
No question.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i think vlc is the most userfriendly media player available on linux. and thats actually pretty poor :lol:

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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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. :P
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