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Ctrl+Alt+Del Guru
Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 326 Location: .de
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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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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reiman Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 108 Location: sweden
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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I use xine for dvds and mplayer for the rest |
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playfool l33t
Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 688 Location: Ã
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Totem using GStreamer 0.9 |
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Q-collective Advocate
Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2070
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:19 am Post subject: |
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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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djpharoah Apprentice
Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 186 Location: Irvine, California USA
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:01 am Post subject: |
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Totem: Movies offline
VLC: DVDs and anything streaming media |
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LemurFromTheId n00b
Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 64 Location: Finland
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:09 am Post subject: |
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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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djpharoah Apprentice
Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 186 Location: Irvine, California USA
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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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? |
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cokey Advocate
Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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just like everyone else, xine/mplayer _________________ https://otw20.com/ OTW20 The new place for off the wall chat |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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djpharoah wrote: | 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.
Q to quit I believe. |
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geniux Veteran
Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:40 am Post subject: |
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I used to use (g)mplayer, but I tried Totem and now I'm stuck _________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ AM2
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bladus Apprentice
Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 233
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:10 am Post subject: |
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mplayer/xine here too |
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RaZoR1394 Guru
Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 356
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:28 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor) |
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gaz514 n00b
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Scotland
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:55 am Post subject: |
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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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scharkalvin Guru
Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 331 Location: south florida
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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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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cokey Advocate
Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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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 _________________ https://otw20.com/ OTW20 The new place for off the wall chat |
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psyqil Advocate
Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 2767
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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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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thoffmeyer Apprentice
Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 208 Location: GMT -5 Hours
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:13 am Post subject: |
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Gotta be mplayer all the way... _________________ Conrad Guide, Current Maintainer
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aidanjt Veteran
Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 1118 Location: Rep. of Ireland
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:18 am Post subject: |
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(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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omp Retired Dev
Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 1018 Location: Glendale, California
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:55 am Post subject: |
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mplayer-bin _________________ meow. |
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ecatmur Advocate
Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 3595 Location: Edinburgh
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Jeremy_Z l33t
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 671 Location: Shanghai
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ "Because two groups of consumers drive the absolute high end of home computing: the gamers and the porn surfers." /.
My gentoo projects, Kelogviewer and a QT4 gui for etc-proposals |
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aidanjt Veteran
Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 1118 Location: Rep. of Ireland
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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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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atrus123 Guru
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 339 Location: Annapolis, MD
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:34 am Post subject: |
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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.
J. _________________ "I cannot support a movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt."
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Omega21 l33t
Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 788 Location: Canada (brrr. Its cold up here)
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:35 am Post subject: |
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I have Xine Mplayer and VLC. I find mplayer can play everything I need. Except wavs. _________________ iMac G4 1GHz :: q6600 //2x 500GB//2GB RAM//8600GT//Gentoo :: MacBook Pro//2.53GHz |
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gentoo_lan l33t
Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 891 Location: Charles Town, WV
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:15 am Post subject: |
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I have MPlayer and VLC. Those two suit me just fine. |
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