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View Poll Results: Video Multimedia Application of the Year
mplayer 568 46.94%
xine 365 30.17%
Totem 93 7.69%
Gstreamer 33 2.73%
acidrip 5 0.41%
Cinelerra 9 0.74%
VLC 117 9.67%
Ogle 2 0.17%
Kino 13 1.07%
Helix 5 0.41%
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Old 01-28-2006, 03:19 PM   #1
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Video Multimedia Application of the Year


Yes, we know many of these apps are not directly comparable. The real question should be, which one does its job the best.

--jeremy
 
Old 01-29-2006, 08:18 PM   #2
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MPlayer overall is the best, though xine has better DVD playback (less buggy from what I can tell)
 
Old 01-30-2006, 12:59 AM   #3
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Totem is none the worse than Mplayer.
 
Old 01-30-2006, 08:08 AM   #4
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Last year, Gstreamer wouldn't play practically anything I had, and people recommended uninstalling totem-gstreamer and installing totem-xine as the first step in multimediafying your Gnome desktop. It has come of age and will play practically anything if you have the codec for it, and it has a plugin for win32, as well. Hoozah!
 
Old 01-30-2006, 12:39 PM   #5
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MPlayer and Xine both do the job for me could not ask for more....
 
Old 01-30-2006, 12:39 PM   #6
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I voted "xine" since I use it as the Kaffeine backend.
 
Old 01-30-2006, 12:55 PM   #7
MasterC
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MythTV? Or does it fit somewhere else?
 
Old 01-30-2006, 12:56 PM   #8
anticapitalista
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I used to use Xine for video, but now I'm a mplayer convert.

Mplayer will play anything, and if your lucky, it'll make you a coffee when you wake up in the morning.
 
Old 01-30-2006, 03:20 PM   #9
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Mplayer is the one and only I love.
 
Old 01-30-2006, 07:01 PM   #10
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voted xine, but like mplayer quite well, too
 
Old 01-30-2006, 09:02 PM   #11
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Cannot vote without kaffeine or codeine. Put there in the poll, please
 
Old 01-30-2006, 09:38 PM   #12
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Kaffeine as well, using xine as the backend but I don't like the xine gui.
 
Old 01-30-2006, 09:57 PM   #13
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Kaffeine here too. It plays absolutely everything and it does it well.
 
Old 01-30-2006, 10:11 PM   #14
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Was Kaffeine sorted out at some previous stage? What gives?!

x Kaffeine
 
Old 01-31-2006, 06:22 PM   #15
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MPlayer and only MPlayer
 
  


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