__ mplayer vs xine __

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LucaMartinetti · Post by **LucaMartinetti** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:25 pm

What's your favourite media player? Why? thanks to all the users and gurus..

The Ennead · Post by **The Ennead** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:40 pm

I'll go with Xine once it's working. Image quality and stuff seems to be better but they could really do with improving the installation process. Once you get the hang of it it seems to be straightforward but you never see the same amount of 'I can't get Ogle working' threads.
Ogle as second choice basically for being no frills and just doing what you want it to.
Third comes Mplayer, it has some nice skins.

AngusYoung · Post by **AngusYoung** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:05 pm

Well, I go with mplayer because it simply work great with my subtitles. I don't know wether xine support this feature or not, but I am impressed with mplayer supporting this even better than radlight (for win).

darktux · Post by **darktux** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:31 pm

Ogle for DVDs, mplayer for everything else

jufoa · Post by **jufoa** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:45 pm

xine for everything video related. it just works great!

DuF · Post by **DuF** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:14 pm

xine for the simply use of tv-out with nvtv !

idl · Post by **idl** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:24 pm

Ogle for DVDs, mplayer for everything else

iKiddo · Post by **iKiddo** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 11:49 am

Don't have a DVD-ROM so I use mplayer all the time

DuF · Post by **DuF** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:12 pm

I didn't have a DVD-Rom too, but an nvidia TV-out, and with xine it's really easy

amne · Post by **amne** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 3:06 pm

i use xine on my intel-based debian box with gnome and mplayer on my amd-based box with kde. no, just kidding, but this is one of the ultimate questions to start a holy war

i personally prefer mplayer because it needs no gui and has more features than i will ever be able to use and understand. mencoder comes along with it and is quite handy, too.

source · Post by **source** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 4:27 pm

mplayer for everything.

Lovechild · Post by **Lovechild** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 4:43 pm

Standalone DVD player for DVDs, MPlayer + KMPlayer for everything else

iKiddo · Post by **iKiddo** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 5:01 pm

Lovechild wrote:Standalone DVD player for DVDs

Elgh, that's cheating!

(I use one too

)

Lovechild · Post by **Lovechild** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 6:36 pm

iKiddo wrote:
Lovechild wrote:Standalone DVD player for DVDs
Elgh, that's cheating!

(I use one too )

I rip my DVDs using dvd::rip, does that count ?

vrih · Post by **vrih** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:42 pm

I just never got on with mplayer and the gui used to run my CPU at 100%. Xine is totally trouble free as far as i'm concerened

Blurpy · Post by **Blurpy** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:14 pm

I love xine! But mplayer is nice too, I just like xine better

eryvile · Post by **eryvile** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:47 pm

vrih wrote:I just never got on with mplayer and the gui used to run my CPU at 100%. Xine is totally trouble free as far as i'm concerened

Kind of like just the total opposite here: xine wouldn't emerge (at first shot) so I tried mplayer... and it's been running flawlessly. Although, to be honest, I'm not really a power user for video on computer a lot ...

duff · Post by **duff** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:22 pm

I was easily swayed by xine's slick skins, but I always had problems with choppy images and and sound suddenly going kuput. I gave mplayer a shot when they got native support for Sorse^H^H^H^H^H Quicktime, and it was emerge -C xine and I never looked back. It plays all my divx movies flawlessly with none of the problems I had in xine.

S_aIN_t · Post by **S_aIN_t** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:06 pm

mplayer.. because it can play those ogm files i have.. and display the subtitles and the audio i want.. it is just great..

xine is nice.. but there is one thing i dont like about it.. it that stupid non-resizeable file selector box. and it used to crash my fluxbox.

modal · Post by **modal** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 5:43 am

I like mplayer for my avi files (divx), but i recently tried Totem..which seems promising, except for some slowdowns. (based on xine, btw)
Overall, i'm not a big fan of xine because i think it looks too much like powerdvd

oh well.
as long as it gets it done, right?

mikepb78 · Post by **mikepb78** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 2:53 pm

Mplayer have the best codec support and the performance on certain hardware. But Xine is a better framework allowing the ui to be seperate from the rest. Also it does not have the irritating bug of playing movies and doing stuff in the background, with the playback being choppy.

KiTaSuMbA · Post by **KiTaSuMbA** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 6:26 pm

Back in the "Old Days" (i.e. pre-gentoo) I had given both mplayer and xine a shot only to end up in despair and fallback to the mantra of "different apps for different jobs" with avifile, vlc and ogle. Setting up xine for dvd playback had been such a nasty trauma that even when I came on gentoo with the USE vars and all, I was still shuddering on the thought of setting up xine to actually work. Since many gentooers were praising mplayer and quite some releases had past, I decided to give it another chance... and behold: no matter what you throw at it, it will play! It is, or at least is preceived to be, a rare thing for linux multimedia apps to surpass in both quality and flexibility commercial windows-crap. Huge collection of video and audio codecs, alsa support (a bit tough to get right though), almost all kinds of subtitles and encodings ( with AA TTF!), on-the-fly audio-video and subs sync, -vo xv and -ao sdl giving remarkable quality!
The GUI is a bit "sloppy" (the skins give the looks but functionality is still somewhat limited) but all around, mplayer is a killer app for multimedia.
FYI, I rip using dvd::rip which I find quite more "practical" than mencoder.

iKiddo · Post by **iKiddo** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 9:55 pm

Is there anyone who has any experience with brightening the image that video-players give. My monitor is very dark, xgamma seems to lighten everything, but video...

I currently use mplayer. Although is has an option for gamma correction, none of the display drivers (-vo xv, etc.) seem to support it.

jconover · Post by **jconover** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 12:39 pm

Xine has worked good for me.

puregenius · Post by **puregenius** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:56 pm

I use ogle for dvds. It just works...

And mplayer has never failed. It has some oddities, but will play every file i throw at it. Something if a bonus when windows friends have 4 different players: qt, wmp, playa, powerdvd... etc.

xine just doesn't work for me...
maybe its time for another go.

mplayer vs xine

What's your favourite media player?

mplayer vs xine

Mplayer is very good but

ogle/mplayer the combo you can't beat