Video Media Player Application of the Year
 

A new category this year.

--jeremy

Can we have an option for RealPlayer please?

I'd say Helix is the best representation of Real on Linux. If there is sufficient demand we can also add the traditional "Real" player, but I left it off since it's based on Helix.

--jeremy

I use gxine and mplayer but I do prefer gxine. It's just very simple to use and doesn't get in my way at all. Since gxine is based on xine, xine gets my vote.

VLC BABY!

I just couldn't live without being able to retranscode anything I can watch. Plus it can play almost everything.

kaffeine and I must admit the only other one I have tried is Helix

VLC for me, though i must say i don't dislike mplayer. But VLC just rox if you ask me.

Kaffeine yes. Mplayer is a close second.

VLC is for me...and mplayer.

mplayer is the best for me, it play anything I have

Xine for simplicity, Mplayer for multi-videotype-support..

I'll flip a coin for which one I shall vote for..

Heads = xine
Tails = mplayer

and the result is..

TAILS.. Congratulation Mplayer, you got my vote!

KMplayer
 

This year I started using KMplayer. I like it because it is small and fast and the user interface gives as much room as possible to video. Too bad you don't have KMplayer on the list, so I voted for Kaffeine which I was using before KMplayer.

Mplayer once you put all the codecs on it.

In fact, I love kmplayer, but no option for it here.

Voted for MPlayer.

VLC takes the vote. Plays most of the media. Xine is cool too but i think its rather bloated and the interface is not that good. found some new names in the list. i think i got to try and see what the heck the are.

MPLAYER no doubt
 

I have done hell lot of stuff with mplayer..
and have saved a lot of money!!
u know Encoding and other kinda stuff..
my votes for Mplayer!!
:cool:

mplayer rules!
 

I voted for mplayer, because I have it running on 3 machines with different distro's as the plug-in for Firefox, Opera & Konqueror. It seems to play everything once you get the right codecs installed. It even plays the stuff on the Council of Europe site, though they claim they can't support Linux for legal reasons! :rolleyes:

It is a hard question though, as mplayer uses xine, and I mostly use Kaffeine for playing DVD's, and that also uses xine, so maybe I should have voted for xine. ;)

Happy New Year to all.

I actually have not used any these options... Since I don't normally watch video ;) Although I installed VLC yesterday to test out... so I voted for that one.

My favorite is mplayer.

VLC, is like universal or something. I download it and things just end up working. Nothing to say about other apps but VLC is just hardcore!

VLC, hands down, has the best UI of all the media players I've tried. Every Windows user I've recommended it to fell in love as well.

MPlayer...controls at the keyboard, not on the screen taking up real estate and distracting you from what you're watching.

Kaffien! gone from just another video player app. to a killer one

I would've gone for VLC because I use it on multiple OSs, but I've chosen xine instead (even over mplayer) simply because it was the first functional Linux media player I encountered all those years ago :)

kaffeine, but if it doesn't play on it --> Mplayer is an option along with VLC

mplayer, because it just works. I have never been able to get Helix to play anything on my systems. Does it actually play video of some sort?

MPlayer or VLC? Hmmm...
 

...I guess I'll go with MPlayer. I've used it longest, it's the one with the Firefox plugin installed and it plays most everything. I do use VLC too, mostly for DVD's and the streaming features. But, MPlayer is my favorite. :)

Can't imagine something such simple, useable and mighty as mplayer.

I like kaffeine,I think it is faster that Mplayer and reaplyer.

1. VLC Player
2. MPlayer

VLC rulez in both linux and windoze.

It plays everything you throw at it, is small, clean, nice interface. Comes with free popcorn.

VLC but I use mplayer....
 

Even though I use mplayer most of the time, VLC just keeps coming through for me on certain occasions. And the fact that it's multi-platform allows me to recommend it to all of my friends/co-workers who haven't made the switch to Linux yet.

Mplayer I think.

why in god's name would anyone want to use realplayer

I first started using VLC with Windows a to watch DVDs. It was the only player that worked and it plays everything. Now I use Debian Sarge with VLC and iit's great!

Mplayer Is Da Best!

I like mplayer, VLC and Totem, but I've voted for VLC.

VLC is my favourite. It just works, even if I don't have all of the right codecs.

Happy GNU Year!

Mplayer is the best, but Xine is a tough rival. =)

Use and voted for mplayer. Used to use xine and VLC is awesome. But mplayer-no gui is better.

But where is Codeine?

A nice and simple player, does what it's supposed to, play video. No crap like playlists and and trying to do other media formats which other applications are better suited for..

Kaffeine is the best, but I don't like it :)

Mplayer/gmplayer is my favourite by a narrow margin, then Xine, closely followed by VLC. I can do things and play files in mplayer that cause xine and VLC to barf. Xine is tops for playing DVD's ,though.

Mplayer for me.

If installed from source with all codecs, MPlayer is by far the best for regular playback. Not to mention that dvd-nav support is also in experimental stages for it.

mplayer narrowly wins out over vlc, only because i can do so much more with it and the no gui(once i finally figured out how to use it). though vlc is a very close second because it is cross-platformed and doesn't required codecs.

I voted for Totem but actually I don't really like it...

In fact, I haven't found yet a 'decent' media player for GNU/Linux.

VLC because it plays everything I throw at it. Including the anime with weird codecs, without downloading extra stuff. Plus it works on multiple OSes, takes good DVD screencaps, and I can recommend it to everyone I know (including the Mac users).

VLC dear it can play almost all of my videos.