Video Multimedia Application of the Year

d0g · 02-16-2006, 04:45 AM

Totem with xine backend beats all others =P

glebovitz · 02-16-2006, 08:03 AM

I use all three, but mplayer still has the biggest selection of codecs. It even plays the tivo video files.

Zsub · 02-16-2006, 08:13 AM

Since I managed to install the correct plugins the correct way, there's almost nothing my beloved xine won't play :-)

@ All the people who want Kaffeine:
I might be wrong, but isn't Kaffeine 'just' a xine-frontend?

beji · 02-16-2006, 08:52 AM

MPlayer do the work!

Mizzou_Engineer · 02-16-2006, 08:57 AM

I know it's just a frontend to Xine, GStreamer, etc. but it is a very good app.

patrokov · 02-16-2006, 10:26 AM

avidemux (along with dvgrab) is the app that let me switch to Linux from Windows. Now I can use my dv camera as a passthrough for my VCR and capture any video I want and then easily archive it for future watching. (I refuse to purchase any TV cards until the silly HDTV mess gets sorted out.)

And maybe this summer, I'll sit down and learn cinelerra.

Zsub · 02-16-2006, 12:33 PM

@Mizzou_Engineer:
Sure, Kaffeine is great, I use it myself. Managed to screw it, though

It is using a non-existing engine, apparently...

jag2000 · 02-16-2006, 12:40 PM

Mplayer is the one

cincindie · 02-16-2006, 02:51 PM

Both mplayer and xine seem to do the job for me.

hueagle · 02-16-2006, 07:09 PM

I use the Kaffeine as Video Multimedia Application
it is very well

foreigner · 02-17-2006, 03:51 PM

Kaffeine, Mplayer plugin into Firefox/Mozilla

Col._Panic · 02-17-2006, 05:38 PM

Xine-ui - for the balance between compatibility, cofigurability, out-of-the-box useability, and all-round performance. Just beats Mplayer, which I also use (for the few files which xine won't play

).

DrEwMoNeY · 02-18-2006, 02:18 AM

I have to go with mplayer. Except for realplayer for linux, which I think is based on Helix, it is the only one I have ever used. I guess Helix would be second then.

bluexp · 02-18-2006, 02:22 AM

I select xine & xinelib.

Jessii · 02-18-2006, 03:13 AM

VLC. I loved it and knew it from BillOS and now I use in on linux. MPlayer is also good, but in ease of use, for me, VLC is more comfortable

(I use it to play movies with subs. In VLC the subs encoding is in the open file dialog whereas in mPlayer you need to fish in the settings to change that. I use more than one language and so I change the encoding as much as opening the file.)