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View Poll Results: Video Multimedia Application of the Year
mplayer
568 46.94%
xine
365 30.17%
Totem
93 7.69%
Gstreamer
33 2.73%
acidrip
5 0.41%
Cinelerra
9 0.74%
VLC
117 9.67%
Ogle
2 0.17%
Kino
13 1.07%
Helix
5 0.41%
#1
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 7,127
Thanked: 159
Video Multimedia Application of the Year
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Yes, we know many of these apps are not directly comparable. The real question should be, which one does its job the best.
#2
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 20
Thanked: 0
MPlayer overall is the best, though xine has better DVD playback (less buggy from what I can tell)
#3
Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Lithuania
Distribution: Hybrid
Posts: 2,220
Thanked: 7
Totem is none the worse than Mplayer.
#4
LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Korea
Distribution: Debian unstable
Posts: 17
Thanked: 0
Last year, Gstreamer wouldn't play practically anything I had, and people recommended uninstalling totem-gstreamer and installing totem-xine as the first step in multimediafying your Gnome desktop. It has come of age and will play practically anything if you have the codec for it, and it has a plugin for win32, as well. Hoozah!
#5
Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Lebanon
Distribution: RHEL 4/CentOS 4/Debian Sarge/(K)Ubuntu 7.04
Posts: 625
Thanked: 1
MPlayer and Xine both do the job for me could not ask for more....
#6
LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 12
Thanked: 0
I voted "xine" since I use it as the Kaffeine backend.
#7
Moderator
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu
Posts: 12,611
Thanked: 5
MythTV? Or does it fit somewhere else?
#8
Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX, sidux, Debian Sid. All using fluxbox.
Posts: 194
Thanked: 2
I used to use Xine for video, but now I'm a mplayer convert.
#9
Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Puerto Rico
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 176
Thanked: 0
Mplayer is the one and only I love.
#10
Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 191
Thanked: 0
voted xine, but like mplayer quite well, too
#11
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Conectiva
Posts: 3
Thanked: 0
Cannot vote without kaffeine or codeine. Put there in the poll, please
#12
Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: Slackware/Mandrake/Debian (sarge)
Posts: 266
Thanked: 0
Kaffeine as well, using xine as the backend but I don't like the xine gui.
#13
Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Italy
Distribution: openSUSE. Debian.
Posts: 114
Thanked: 0
Kaffeine here too. It plays absolutely everything and it does it well.
#14
Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: OpenSuse 10.x
Posts: 262
Thanked: 0
Was Kaffeine sorted out at some previous stage? What gives?!
#15
Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Debian Etch
Posts: 37
Thanked: 0
MPlayer and only MPlayer
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