Video Media Player Application of the Year
 

What do you to watch video?

--jeremy

poll is showing up as closed?

From http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...awards-610183/

Once the discussion has died down and any changes made the polls will open for voting.

Have you considered doing a favorite video editor poll?

Don't know how it was missed - thanks for the heads up:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-year-610349/

--jeremy

mplayer mplayer

I would vote MPlayer, but it can't seem to find and open a VCD so I must select Xine ... sure like MPlayer better, though.

mplayer mplayer mplayer

I use Totem, but its a modified version that uses Xine as its back-end. So I voted Xine.

Another for mplayer- plays everything I need flawlessly.

VLC by far. Mplayer is proprietary software. VLC is Gnu-GPL

Xfmedia is still missing (think it's second year I miss it from the list). Either here or in the Audio department.

Liviu

MPlayer is propietary software!! O_o I thought that it was GLPv2 O= at least, that's what I read from the information page...

Anyway...hmmmmm....maplyer or vlc.....both are great but I think I'll go with vlc this time ^^


Regards

Could you add KMPlayer to the list?

still mplayer

mplayer and then vlc.

you missed RealPlayer 10. Yes, it is kinda Helix, but there is an official RealPlayer version that was made by the Helix people, and it includes more support for web browsers etc.

Kaffeine
 

I use Kaffeine. It works with every several video formats that I frequently use.

Mplayer from the Livna RPM Repository :cool:

Well, since there isn't any SMPlayer, I'll have to vote for mplayer then.

You're confusing realplayer (non-open source) with mplayer!

mplayer has never let me down

vlc has always worked for me.

VLC baby! :cool:

I would say VLC and Mplayer...

Kaffeine is the KDE caffeine :).

Kaffeine. I kinda like mplayer, but haven't used it in ages. Not as my main player anyway. I have it actually installed in a Windows machine. Not because I wanted to, but SimpleDivX users mplayer, so...

Anyway, how are things with mplayer today? Still disagreeing with DVD-makers that menu's should not exist? I remember having a lot of trouble with mplayer finding the right "track" to play a DVD-movie. Since most DVD's here are multi-lang/subtexted, I had a hard time using mplayer and started to use ogle for DVD-playback, so I just stopped using it all together and decided to use a player that does everything and does everything correctly in a standard manner...

mplayer is the best video tools.
add w32codes of course

mplayer is good, it has better navigation than xine. But, when I was playing my dvd, the dvd menu wouldn't come out and the sound was played 3 second before the video. When I ran on the terminal it said "YOUR CPU IS TOO SLOW TO PLAY DVD". Well, I use PIII 800 MHz with 256 MB RAM and 32 MB RIVA TNT2. But, I used kaffeine with xine-engine and my dvd played smoothly, even the menu appeared. so I choose kaffeine.

VLC just works

mplayer is behind xine in DVD menu
xine is behind mplayer in menu ergonomics
both are loosers in playlist building
both have excellent engines
the first frontend that binds them proper will rock!

Do You have any clue?
 

Please elaborate?
For I studied the code (GPL) of MPlayer ant there stands it's GPL, how so if You are right?
Or was it a typo / misinterpretation or an other -nonmplayer ?

Using Kaffeine is pure delight! I like it much better than Kmplayer.

totem movie player simply rocks. You can do a lot with it. I do not know about skin. vlc and mplayer are also very good as well. I am surprised smplayer is not there. Would have been my fist choice .

My reasoning might seem a little lame, but Totem was the default player for Ubuntu, and quite simply, I've found no need to try anything else. It just works.

I want do downlode vedio media palyer for my linux laptop
wher can I got it

what linux distro are you running?
If Debian-based like Ubuntu or Mepis, you may use synaptic or your installer and simply search for vlc, libdvdcss2, etc, {as a warning depending on your country, the libdvdcss2 may be illegal to use}

Best of luck. You can install Linux Mint or PCLinuxOS as these already come with it. There are many others, but these are my preferred choices for a newbie.

Codeine?
 

Where is Codeine?

Once VLC always VLC. I've never looked back or bothered about any codecs! :)

Video Player=Xine.also mplayer sometimes.

Mplayer and Xine. I use both, but Mplayer more frequently due to the improvements that it had.

For your average low res xvid it doesnt really matter. I used to use vlc and mplayer and found them both exactly identical for what i use them for (they even used the same codecs basically), except when I was playing around with streaming vlc has some great features there. However since we entered the era of 1080p x264 video files, I have had to switch to using coreavc on windows. The ffmpeg decoder that vlc and other players use just doesnt handle it, even on my quad core with a recent graphics card. 720p is fine, 1080p doesnt go at all.

If anyone can bring me up to date on how to play 1080p x264 mkvs on linux i would gladly switch back.

I voted mplayer, because if nothing else works - mplayer does. VLC is a close second. I much prefer the interface of VLC, and the ability to drag-and-drop everything, including whole directory structures into the playlist. But lately mplayer works better. Especially with DVD's. - Totem doesn't let me change the language through the menu, and VLC is not starting due to a bug. That could also be related to my cpu, which seems be faulty.

VLC all the way. It just works.

Make that 2 for kmplayer.

Simple, light and a frontend for both xine and mplayer. Also works very well for amule previews and doesnt go hiding in the corner when you close it.

I'd probably like vlc too, but Ive an irrational hatred of that traffic cone..

Im voting mplayer as its the backend I use the most with kmplayer.

I've got Totem (xine backend), VLC and Mplayer installed on my desktop and mostly I use Totem. If it could open ISOs and handle DVDs with menus in the same way as VLC I'd probably never use anything else. Mplayer's there mostly because it's a dependency of ripping/encoding tools I use. It's a decent enough player but has some strange issues like if I resize the playback window the aspect ratio isn't retained and it also struggles with some DVD menus. VLC I guess is the most complete player but I need/want something that shows me some simple controls in fullscreen with a movement of the mouse, not with a click. I'll vote for Totem-xine as it's the one I use the most and I've found it available on every (HDD installable)distro I tried. I'd like VLC more if it wasn't such a complete b!t*h to compile for those distros that don't have a working/recent version in their repos. If i could only have one media player to do everything audio and video I guess it would be VLC, but I have the luxury of choice so Totem.

We are in the XXI century guys. Stop the madness of xine vs mplayer. Howeva I need the best video player/producer/live audio-video FX not a GUI. Mplayer yeah!

If you want playlists: mplayer Videos/[Mo-ve-On]*

If you want to squeeze a lot from mplayer RTFM. ;)

If it's not working: it is time to pay attention to xorg.conf...

I chose vlc because it can play pretty much whatever you throw at it, and I've used it a lot in Windows and Linux. mplayer would be my second choice. It is a little more difficult to install, but the browser plugins are great.

However, I watch most videos outside of my browser so I am sticking with vlc.

I always end up at VLC and that is also for audio!

VLC definitely, I like for the fact it's lightweight and it installs everything out of the box, everything except RM, MOV and WMV