Video Media Player Application of the Year

jay73 · 01-11-2009, 04:52 AM

Mplayer. I was a bit of a fan of smplayer, actually, but it seems that the latest version has re-introduced some bugs.
However, I have to admit that I have a handful of wmv files from a year of six ago and some recent HD stuff that simply will not play in mplayer - some will play only in xine, other ones only in vlc. So I'm obliged to keep all three

allend · 01-11-2009, 07:06 AM

xine is still playing my DVDs. When I need something more then I will look again, probably to VLC.

divyashree · 01-11-2009, 12:17 PM

mplayer is the best,I also like vlc player,can anyone help me to play vlc player as root ???

Saptech · 01-11-2009, 11:11 PM

I really like mplayer but I really really like how VLC handles all kinds of stuff for linux, macos and windoze...

anticapitalista · 01-12-2009, 09:13 AM

mplayer. light and reliable.

Eternal_Newbie · 01-12-2009, 10:59 AM

Mplayer SVN with SMPlayer frontend. beats even VLC hands down.

Slacker Steve · 01-12-2009, 03:22 PM

I used to use mplayer and vlc.

But ever since I switched to Slackware I use xine since it's preinstalled

mariuz · 01-13-2009, 11:27 AM

I use vlc and mplayer

seems to be some real audio bugs in the latest jaunty nighties but vlc is good otherwise

jasohl · 01-14-2009, 10:06 AM

mplayer. i plays everything.

vijayma · 01-15-2009, 02:18 AM

VLC is very powerful.

murugesan · 01-15-2009, 02:38 AM

mplayer
Just sometimes xine.

BeaverusIV · 01-15-2009, 03:18 AM

I like dragon player. Simple and is easy to switch subtitles/audio tracks in my videos.

code933k · 01-15-2009, 04:12 AM

Does somebody said something about MPlayer? It happens to be the only thing I do use for video: Watching, encoding, decoding, webcam, checking audio samples from MC, enjoying life, and what not..?

hem853 · 01-15-2009, 05:44 AM

I find mplayer is a little unstable and vlc not very user friendly.

Use Xine because it does excatly what it says on the tin with a nice user friendly interface aand with the addtion of a few codecs I haven't yet found a piece of media it will not play.

jordanwb · 01-15-2009, 09:14 AM