Video Media Player of the Year

weirdwolf · 01-14-2018, 08:30 PM

(s)mplayer

anon026 · 01-20-2018, 01:57 AM

smplayer.

Ook · 01-22-2018, 01:59 PM

mplayer cause I can run it directly from the console without a gui

ook@zzz:~$ mplayer dvd://1

Idk if the others can do this or not - it works for me and I'm too lazy to bother looking at anything else

Andersen · 01-23-2018, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by ChuangTzu

I second this, voted VLC but would have voted for SMPlayer if offered.

This^

rowo · 01-24-2018, 04:13 PM

VLC plays anything I need.

sombragris · 01-29-2018, 11:40 AM

I use umplayer (I know, it's a dinosaur) but if I had to use something current I'd use SMplayer.

nattydread69 · 02-02-2018, 06:42 AM

Shame smplayer isn't on here , but its only a front end for mplayer I suppose.

nattydread69 · 02-02-2018, 06:51 AM

I don't know why VLC gets so much acclaim, try and watch a 4k UHD movie with it. It doesn't use any multithreading.

anticapitalista · 02-02-2018, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Ook

mplayer cause I can run it directly from the console without a gui

ook@zzz:~$ mplayer dvd://1

Idk if the others can do this or not - it works for me and I'm too lazy to bother looking at anything else

mpv is able to do this too.

dugan · 02-02-2018, 01:48 PM

I picked mpv because I use it, I think it's great, and I recently figured out its ffmpeg filters.

Will try smplayer and qmplay2 this year.

VamosBaby · 02-03-2018, 08:34 AM

I used mplayer in the past.

Nowadays, it's VLC for me.

FungalNet · 02-05-2018, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

I voted for VLC, but I also like the SMPlayer front end for MPlayer.

Yeah, with no smplayer I'm not voting for any of them

ondoho · 02-07-2018, 12:18 AM

each and every (s|u|gnome-|etc.)mplayer voter here should try out mpv.
it is essentially a fork of mplayer, and has been under very intense development for the last couple of years. it is _far_ superior to mplayer, and equally lightweight.

btw, smplayer can use it as a backend.

i really hope it will win this poll, and if not now, next year.

FungalNet · 02-07-2018, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

each and every (s|u|gnome-|etc.)mplayer voter here should try out mpv.
it is essentially a fork of mplayer, and has been under very intense development for the last couple of years. it is _far_ superior to mplayer, and equally lightweight.

btw, smplayer can use it as a backend.

i really hope it will win this poll, and if not now, next year.

Actually now that you mentioned it I have tried it and I can't remember having any complaints. I didn't explore too much on its capabilities, I just thought it had too few features, but maybe I should give it a try again.
Thanks