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View Poll Results: Video Media Player of the Year
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Dragon Player
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2 |
0.96% |
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DVD-Player (XBMC)
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0 |
0% |
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FFplay
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1 |
0.48% |
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GNOME Videos
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2 |
0.96% |
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mplayer
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11 |
5.29% |
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mplayer2
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4 |
1.92% |
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mpv
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30 |
14.42% |
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Parole
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3 |
1.44% |
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QMPlay2
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1 |
0.48% |
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VideoPlayer (Kodi)
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2 |
0.96% |
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VLC
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146 |
70.19% |
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xine
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6 |
2.88% |
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01-15-2022, 09:25 PM
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#16
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Land of Linux :: Finland
Distribution: Arch Linux && OpenBSD 7.4 && Pop!_OS && Kali && Qubes-Os
Posts: 824
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i use vlc, if i need to watch a show / movie that isnt available from streaming companies.
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01-19-2022, 05:49 AM
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#17
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2021
Posts: 5
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Celluloid
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-21-2022, 07:04 PM
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#18
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2011
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,834
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Tough choice this. Although VLC is great, I tend to use Dragon Player whenever it plays the videos I want it to, which depending on how much effort I put into codecs is almost all.
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01-22-2022, 01:02 PM
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#19
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Member
Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Ohio
Distribution: debian
Posts: 141
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SMAPLAYER with mpv
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01-22-2022, 01:34 PM
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#20
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Ireland
Distribution: Debian 12 Bookworm
Posts: 5,808
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Quote:
Originally Posted by djk44883
SMAPLAYER with mpv
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Good choice! |
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01-23-2022, 04:29 PM
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#21
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Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: 1 AU from a G2V star
Distribution: PCLinuxOS LXDE / Android
Posts: 247
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Still using mplayer or a variant therein
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02-02-2022, 01:00 AM
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#22
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware, FreeBSD, Illumos, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, Plan9, Inferno, OpenBSD, FreeDOS, HURD
Posts: 1,094
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Is there a pure (non-X) terminal one?
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02-02-2022, 03:10 AM
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#23
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dchmelik
Is there a pure (non-X) terminal one?
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some players are able to play directly to the framebuffer, or use libcaca or some such. It's really more of a video output decoder/driver question.
I just tried mpv playback on a non-GUI setup and it plays back perfectly (hwdec: vaapi). |
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02-02-2022, 05:44 AM
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#24
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2011
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,834
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dchmelik
Is there a pure (non-X) terminal one?
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Mplayer is good for the framebuffer by default, and easy to use in the framebuffer. |
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02-03-2022, 06:29 PM
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#25
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 2
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smplayer
smplayer
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-04-2022, 07:11 PM
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#26
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Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: 1 AU from a G2V star
Distribution: PCLinuxOS LXDE / Android
Posts: 247
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always kinda liked the look of smplayer
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-06-2022, 02:35 AM
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#27
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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Quote:
Originally Posted by weirdwolf
always kinda liked the look of smplayer
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It's skinnable, so you can have different looks.
That said, I prefer watching my movies & videos "plain" - mostly fullscreen, or with nothing but a WM frame around them. |
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02-07-2022, 03:40 AM
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#28
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2012
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Distribution: CentOS, Mint, Fedora
Posts: 7
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For me it has been VLC for many years. Runs also on that other platform in addition to Linux, and has never given be grief, so have not felt need to try others.
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