Video Media Player Application of the Year
 

What do you use to watch video?

--jeremy

Hi:

I use VLC for all the videos and movies I watch.

VLC hands down, it plays everythign I ask it to while other players don't.

You should try mplayer ;).

VLC thanks to Laurent Aimar and his friends. mplayer try's but needs hundreds of dependecies to eventually play an mp3 at install.

Still mplayer.

VLC beats all of the others, Dragonplayer is the best of the rest but a long way behind

still mplayer me too

I don't really watch videos on my PC but I use mplayer/ffmpeg to rip ( legal ) videos to disk so I can watch them on my TV.

I own legal copies of ALL my videos. DON'T PIRATE!

mplayer - but I voted for miro this year instead of vlc...
 

mplayer FTW!

But I voted for miro coz it's pretty freakin' kewl (even though it's kind of a biotch to install on new slack systems right now w/sbopkg queues coz some of the source for the deps has moved around a bit).

But the best go to that you just know is gonna work every time is still VLC - Which is use almost as much as mplayer... maybe a bit more.

:hatsoff:

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mplayer here too.

VLC Rules

VLC hands down. It does/plays everything I want.

If you have mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg and know how to use them, you don't have any need for anything else.

mplayer

Sorry, but then I _know_ the result of this poll. It is VLC :). The slackbuilds are gems to have (Thanks again Alien Bob)

Torn between mplayer and VLC, but I think I used mplayer a bit more this year.

VLC and music too

I've been a long fan and user of MPlayer but VLC is now really better than MPlayer - even as an application called from terminal.

Well, how to vote for my favorite XBMC. It's more than just a player.

VLC 70% of time, SMPlayer the rest

I don't see KPlayer on the list. KPlayer is a KDE player which uses an MPlayer backend. Slackware includes KPlayer in its tree. Arch Linux has it in AUR.

I wonder where SMPlayer is. No one uses it at all?

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The only player to work on my oldest machines\@#37, simply the best.

recently discovered Showtime
I use it on PS3 and Linux it's good alternative to bloated and slow XBMC when used to watch video from internet sources.
Got VLC remote setup to control video from phone or stream to it.
This year i haven't managed to setup home network television, maybe next year i will test and develop solutions for IPTV/network streaming .

Could someone please add SMplayer as a voting option? Much better than VLC IMHO...

I use mplayer or bangarang because vlc doesn't work on my netbook.

VLC, Real Player

I voted for mplayer - but really wanted to vote for smplayer which has a great interface.

At this time we do not plan on adding any of the mplayer front end/GUI options to the category, although I'm open to discussion on why we should.

--jeremy

SMplayer's front-end design and code (I like qt apps) are why I use it. I never found other Mplayer options like KMplayer very appealing and would most likely go with something quite different. I understand your point though so I guess I'll just vote for Mplayer.

Thanks for replying.

I use VLC for short clips. But for movies/youtube i recently started using XBMC - it is the only Linux player that has REAL HW decoding (the real Xvba, not VAAPI) for AMD cards/APUs.

mplayer rules ...

mplayer with the smplayer frontend is an instant install on all my systems.

VLC is clearly head and shoulders above the rest in this category. However, MPLayer has always been a favorite of mine and I could easily get by with MPlayer as my only audio and video player.

Should there be a separate mplayer and mplayer2? Or are they close enough that this poll is considering them the same thing?

mplayer2 has been added.

--jeremy

Agreed, I watch all my movies with XBMC, nothing else compares! But to just watch a 30 video clip on my desktop/laptop it's always vlc.

VLC media player

Still use player the most.

Vlc

what, no xfmedia ?

Spike
 

Always great see Spike Milligan!

For me, VLC is the only media player.

Mplayer works best for me!

mplayer!!! it could do so much that you dont even realize. BTW there is mplayer2? anyone mind sharing that?
Thanks,
Ted

Smplayer
 

Smplayer with no decorations but everything available at right click is my favourite!!!

What about SMPlayer?

Its a front-end to mplayer.

Voted mplayer since I use SMplayer all the time. VLC is a close second

SMPlayer for me, thanks. It has mplayer goodness wrapped up in a clean, easy to use and configure interface.