xmms, xine, gxine, totem, realplay and slackware 10.0...
 

well, it's so nice to see linux armed with so many multimedia players and browers and all with plugin and helper app capabilities all over the place. what's needed now however is a means to mix and match properly. it's nice that things are generally working better than ever on my 5 year old dell inspiron, with linux, especially slackware, my pentium iii 500 mhz laptop isn't getting older, it's getting better....

but one thing i would like and perhaps it'll be my pet project, but i need to find out how to determine which multimedia apps i want running with each browser, even nautilus and kde browsers... quite a feat i know, but how nice it would be to have a grip on all that....

massive learning curve ahead i think but think of everything i'll learn in the process...

and what kills me the most is that even if i take the time to compile the source code for whatever multimedia product i'm interested in, the damn thing only seems to work even better...

must be a "linux" thing i guess....

having the source code for everything immediately available (not to mention the latest players are handing wmv and real player formats) will be the death of windows....

long live linux

- perry

I'd add *nix philosophy (solve complex tasks by combining/chaining small & simple & perfect working programs) that's very different of another OS worlds I know (Windows, MacOS).