Video Media Player Application of the Year

gotfw · 02-09-2010, 11:49 AM

I just don't get the popularity of VLC. Nice feature list on paper but Buggy as all get out every time I've tried to actually use it.

raju.mopidevi · 02-09-2010, 04:56 PM

VLC rocks again. Competition with mplayer. finally VLC is most favorite player for LQ people again.

mattvdh · 03-22-2010, 02:10 PM

it's too bad the kmplayer doesn't work too well in Linux, because it's incredible in XP.

lupusarcanus · 03-23-2010, 09:35 PM

I like vlc.

sumeet inani · 03-24-2010, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by sumeet inani

It is said mplayer can play all kinds of file
But I have noticed that some youtube videos give error 'unsupported codec'
Does anyone agree ?
I request for ffplay .
ffmpg can do all transcoding while ffplay can play all kinds of file.Yet one thing is lacking that is combining video clips using ffmpeg ? (i do using mencoder)
Anyone has a solution ?

I mailed to contact given on mplayer website & they said mplayer (which I got from ubuntu repository for 8.04) was old .
I had MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2007.
Then I got current snapshot & compiled it from tarball.
It needs xorg-dev & libgtk-dev{for gui} packages installed.
Now every thing is fine.
Just wanted to share if somebody had same problem.
Thank You.

sumeet inani · 03-24-2010, 05:52 AM

(1)Also http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html indicates that vlc has partial support in real media files.
In this case mplayer wins.

(2)Also I think when you want to skip ahead continuously then nothing beats mplayer
while
others give distorted frame.

Isn't it ?