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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm i seem to be a be the only one using gxine, ui-wise it's like totem but more responsive for me.
(g)xine played all my videos so far, but then again i cannot remember trying to play dvds or real media for example..
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use xine for dvds and mplayer for the rest
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Totem using GStreamer 0.9
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kaffeine: using that one in 90% of the offline cases.
For my webstream needs, I use mplayerplug-in, which actually works as of their 3.x series.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Totem: Movies offline
VLC: DVDs and anything streaming media
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use mplayer because it's ridiculously usable and I prefer CLI. On the rare occasion when I need to see dvd menus I use xine.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

trae wrote:
I use mplayer because it's ridiculously usable and I prefer CLI. On the rare occasion when I need to see dvd menus I use xine.

u use CLI to start videos?..how do you control the video from CLI?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just like everyone else, xine/mplayer
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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trae wrote:
I use mplayer because it's ridiculously usable and I prefer CLI. On the rare occasion when I need to see dvd menus I use xine.

u use CLI to start videos?..how do you control the video from CLI?


< > for rewind/fast-forward and F key for fullscreen.
C to cycle through video resolutions.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to use (g)mplayer, but I tried Totem and now I'm stuck :D
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mplayer/xine here too
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use kaffeine together with mplayer and it works ok. Mplayer isn't so good for playing dvds with menus. I also have VLC laying around just in case something doesn't work in either of them.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have (G)MPlayer, Xine, VLC and Totem-xine installed.

I dislike GMplayer, its interface is ugly and it has problems playing some DVDs, files, etc., and it would be nice if it supported a playlist (OK it kinda does, but it's a UI nightmare). Mplayer seems decent, but certainly not the best.

Xine... again ugly (but powerful) interface, but it plays just about anything and has no problems with DVDs (a Family Guy DVD gave me particular trouble, it crashed MPlayer and refused to work with other players, but Xine played it perfectly.) It just works. I tried GXine as well, it seems like it could be good but the user interface lacks in some useful features (including no skip back/forward buttons on the toolbar), while having useless (to me) things like big lists of streaming media.

VLC - I haven't tried it much... seems like a nice interface, playlist, etc.. But as soon as I try to play a DVD with it, I get no sound (sound works fine with other video files etc.) Also the fullscreen was dodgy, it actually took effort for me to get it to play videos with 'proper' full screen, which seems a bit out of order. So it doesn't seem like much use, shame really because it looked like a good player.

Totem-xine seems like the best. Its interface is reasonably good looking and functional, and since it's based on Xine it'll play everything well. I've tried Totem-GStreamer as well, but thought it wasn't up to much, and the aforementioned Family Guy DVD really didn't get on with it.

I've never tried Ogle.

So that's my summary really... hope my thoughts/opinions are useful somehow.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How do you get xine to play .avi files? I can't see how to
specifiy an avi file from the gui.

OTHO mplayer works fine, but the command line gets old quick.
I Probably need to check out kmplayer or gmplayer.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scharkalvin wrote:
How do you get xine to play .avi files? I can't see how to
specifiy an avi file from the gui.
add avi to your USE flags or add it as USE="avi" emerge xine-ui
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scharkalvin wrote:
OTHO mplayer works fine, but the command line gets old quick.
I Probably need to check out kmplayer or gmplayer.
Or gmplayer, which should be installed if you have USE="gtk"...
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gotta be mplayer all the way...
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

(g)mplayer hands down, It'll handle just about any codec out there, hardware acceleration, SIMD optimisations.. its yum, I even use it on Windows installations even though it lacks the UI.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mplayer-bin 8)
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Totem using gstreamer -- I break out gxine or (yuk!) vlc or (yuk! yuk!) mplayer if I find something it can't handle, but that happens less and less these days.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mplayer, with no gui because i am just used to that and know the hotkeys for all the functions i need. Also i often play from CLI too, even made a short alias for it.

I tried kaffeine recently and i found it to play almost correctly some files that were buggy in mplayer (due to well ... buggy files)

As for DVD, well i don't watch DVD on a 12" laptop screen when i have my TV 70cm from it. But i had no problem playing DVDs with mplayer last time i checked.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only problem I have with mplayer and DVD's is lack of DVD menu support, other than that it works fine.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AidanJT wrote:
The only problem I have with mplayer and DVD's is lack of DVD menu support, other than that it works fine.


That's why I like Ogle for DVDs. For everything else, I use mplayer.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have Xine Mplayer and VLC. I find mplayer can play everything I need. Except wavs.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have MPlayer and VLC. Those two suit me just fine.
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