Sherpa Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 (edited) I need a good media (video) player. im looking for one that can handle Windows media files, real media files, quicktime, etc... any suggestions? Im using FC3 Edited February 13, 2005 by Sherpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 mplayer ? mplayer-1.0-0.pre5.9plf mplayer-gui-1.0-0.pre5.9plf win32-codecs-1.6-3plf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Xine can do that, too. Look at the home-page for details on specific codecs. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 MPlayer is king. I've also been using Totem and it's very cool. I used Xine for a while as well, but I found Mplayer to be better - I haven't used Totem enough to say how it compares yet... it seemed to be better with DVDs though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 totem is a frontend to either xine-libs or gstreamer (you pick which at compile time, the MDK packaged totem is built as a xine front end). So MDK-packaged totem will play whatever xine will play, no more or less. xine does do DVD better than mplayer right now, mainly as it actually supports menus and so forth, all mplayer can do is play the actual video, you have to select title, chapter, audio and subtitles manually through the nasty GUI or the command line. Otherwise the two are pretty close, and the range of formats supported depends more on the codecs you have installed than on the player - real-codecs and win32-codecs from PLF are the important packages. xine seems to have better frontends than mplayer; mplayer has mplayer-gui, which it ships with and which is a non-standard ugly type of player. xine has Totem which is excellent for GNOME users, and kaffeine which is perfect for KDE. Generally I'd suggest using whichever one of those two is appropriate, and drop to console mplayer if you find something they can't play for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted February 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 xine is amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 they're all using the same libs/codecs, and for the most part plugins....pick one from a devel standpoint, they all have their moments, but the most consistant for me has long been gxine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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