media player for mandriva?

webazoid · 12-23-2005, 09:55 AM

what's a good media player for mandriva 2006? don't particularly like kaffeine. thanks.

reddazz · 12-23-2005, 10:06 AM

Kaffeine is a good multimedia player, why don't you like it? You could try mplayer, totem or xine (totem, and kaffeine use the xine engine so if you are having problems with kaffeine, then try mplayer first).

shane25119 · 12-23-2005, 10:42 AM

There are many media players, you can pick anyone you like. I am partial toward XMMS for audio, MPlayer with a XINE skin for video and Totem for DVDs

webazoid · 12-23-2005, 11:57 AM

are there skins for kaffeine? i mainly don't like how it looks. xmms seems like an outdated program based on gtk1...though i also kinda like it from winampishness.

reddazz · 12-23-2005, 12:03 PM

You cannot theme kaffeine because it uses whatever KDE theme you are using on your system. The same applies for totem, it uses the gtk2/gnome theme you have setup. Mplayer can be skinned but the pop up menus do not look very nice because it uses gtk1.