Yay VLC.
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Fluendo
I use Fluendo media player in Ubuntu. It is a proprietary software purchased through the Ubuntu software center. It plays everything I throw at it and it has never given me problems. For me, it was money well spent. Too bad Fluendo is not one of the options to vote for.
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Which formats will Fluendo play that VLC won't, out of interest? Is it the DRM'd Windows and Apple media files it can play?
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MPlayer. Despite its functionality, its dependencies (excluding external libraries) are few. In customized or minimal distributions you can play msuic/videos with just X running.
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SMPlayer.
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Try this... install SMPlayer without mplayer/mpv and see how far it gets you as a "video application". |
Well, install mplayer without ffmpeg/x264 or whatever and see how far it gets you. Does it mean mplayer is just a frontend for the codecs?
SMplayer might not be playing the video but it is the application. I use it for the features/GUI/convenience, not for the backend. |
In essence: mplayer, mpv and ffplay are the ruling back-ends, SMplayer & VLC are the ruling desktop front-ends (ok VLC is actually more than that). Poll closed. :D
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If someone were to take the mplayer code and work it directly into the SMPlayer binary (so SMPlayer doesn't call mplayer separately during playback), then it would likely be included in next year's poll. Until then, it will likely remain unmentioned (except for in the comments). |
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This is all about GNU/Linux programs being perfectly functional standalone programs as well as being able to act as a backend for another ones. You know you can play music directly with GStreamer. Does it mean the Audio Media Player Application of the Year poll should include just GStreamer and VLC and ffmpeg? I don't think so, people choose different applications just for the very GUI (or non-GUI, to each its own). Well it's too much arguing about nothing, really, but i'm still convinced this needs reconsideration. |
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And gstreamer is only available as a backend. There is no gstreamer executable for you to run. Fact is, SMPlayer does not play videos... it generates a hugely long and complex mplayer/mpv command that is executed separately, and then mplayer, the program that is actually playing the video, starts playing the video and SMPlayer puts a border around it. It doesn't matter if you don't care what video player is actually being used, it doesn't change the fact that SMPlayer is not the one playing the videos. Add to that, the person who created the poll, jeremy, has decided mplayer frontends aren't a part of this poll. Quote:
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VLC won for the 7th straight year, and 6th straight with a majority vote. Still, Slackware ships with MPlayer. One, advantage of MPlayer is that the newest version will work on older systems, even on Slackware 13.0 which was released in 2009.
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mpv came in 3rd.
good enough. next year it will be first, if the devs continue with their good work, and we get a reasonably recent version into debian stable! |
I liked the M player, SMplayer and MPV but have not been able to make vid/audio sync. no matter how i set it up the lips and sound are not even close, started with defaults.
this issue and not being able to make the mouse and key shortcuts for audio and vol control configure and stay as i set it . so VLC had to be my pick by elimination.And it just works. no troubles, on almost everything. i use all kinds of video players without issues. i use source forge in windows and Linux and never had trouble configuring. but smplayer /MPV and/or Mplayer just give me a headache.too bad. i really liked how i could configure it...just didnt do what i set up for some reason. i used GUI and the terminal (with help pages since i am still new with Linux MInt17 Mate i keep SMplayer and MPV and continue to work with it so maybe one day i can make it work as it 'should' or hoped it would. john |
VLC & Smplayer
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