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View Poll Results: Video Media Player Application of the Year
I use mplayer/mplayer2 (mainly with smplayer/gnome mplayer/kplayer as the frontend) far more than the others. Though I normally have at least 3 installed in case of failure to play issues, mostly vlc but sometimes others like xine or kaffeine.
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Originally Posted by slappisMekaniker
Kplayer and Kaffeine are absolutely different from each other!! Also that voting option has no KPlayer in it.. So perfectly I am not blind...I hope..
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Originally Posted by jeremy
As previously mentioned, GUI frontends for mplayer aren't included in this poll.
--jeremy
Kplayer is a frontend for mplayer.
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Originally Posted by 273
I know what you mean -- it took me a while to come around to using it instead of Kaffeine as a day-to-day player. I think there's something "Windowsy" about the interface that I'm not keen on but it seems to do the job so I've learned to live with it.
While VLC is a great player, the frontend has never been that great IMO. Not quite sure about 'windowsy', but I think I get what you mean. It always feels like its following its own settings rather than global desktop setings. Yeah, thats not the whole story, but I cant quite seem to be able to quite describe other minor niggles with the VLC interface. At least not without poking it then writing a 1000 word post LOL.
Kplayer and Kaffeine are absolutely different from each other!! Also that voting option has no KPlayer in it.. So perfectly I am not blind...I hope..
True, they are indeed different. I never implied they were same.
It seems i must not have been clear enough. Read cascade9's post, he was more specific about i was referring too.
This year I have switched from mplayer to mpv, wh/I am finding to be superior to both mplayer and mplayer2. If you prefer mplayer* and command line tools, you may want to check it out:
Jeremy: Too late to add mpv?? Lots of development happending there as well, so I think perhaps deserving of "the year" award. See here for sampling of changes:
Hello
I, too, am voting "mplayer" but only because there is no category for SMPLAYER, and oddly, sometimes it works when mplayer is broken so I'm assuming it has some of it's own libraries.
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