What's an alternative to mplayer?

[omnicloud]

I don't like mplayer, I want something more like media player classic on windows.

Also, I want it to have support for DVD menus.

[codergeek42]

Xine?
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[omnicloud]

Okay, I'll check it out. I've heard about it but wasn't sure about it.

[nahpets]

Most (all?) of the players in KDE use xine or mplayer as a backend. IMO, Mplayer is the awesomest player that exists. I used to have so many codec problems with WMP, but mplayer plays everything.

Check out these KDE players: Kaffeine, Kplayer or Kmplayer.
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[omnicloud]

I'm actually using gnome but I have the KDElibs merged so I guess those might work too like k3b does.

[nahpets]

For GNome, you can try:

[omnicloud]

Okay, thanks, I'll be looking into these.

But first I need to rebuild my software. My internet connection has been broken since last week and it happened right when I needed to rebuild some software because of broken deps. It seems to have gotten worse so after I am done doing that, I'll emerge xien and totem and try them out.

If you have Verizon DSL, you may want to take a look at this topic.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-329772-highlight-.html

[lotw]

[Ausmosis]

VLC has always worked for me. I have tried mplayer, xine and niether of those does as good a job as vlc. Both mplayer and xine both complain that my system (PIII 550) is too slow to play DVD's VLC however runs flawlessly.

[April<3]

I have always liked gxine. It is just the gtk2-based version from xine.

[GaMMa]

Totem (with the XINE backend) is great, I fell in love with it when I was using openbox. It's very simple and reminds me of the good old days when WMP6.4 was around. It's got a browser plugin which works, but the Gentoo dev team refuses to have it enabled.. hack the ebuild if you'd like you use it .
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[Gentux]

I use Kaffeine. It's the only mediaplayer I haven't had any problems with.
Based on the xine-lib, it plays everything. When it startsup, just select the source you would like to play.
You can create a nice playlist, or click on the DVD icon and it starts playing.

It doesn't really remind me on that buggy, insecure Windows Media Player.
It has a good interface, not to fancy, but userfriendly.

[tlailax]

i love the kmplayer frontend to mplayer and xine. simple interface, with all the keyboard options of mplayer still available. i especially like the record button on the toolbar. so far managed to record rm and wmv streams simply by clicking the record button, supplying a filename and clicking play. fun . use xine for dvd menus, and mplayer for all the rest. can turn off all the ui elements to get a pure movie window like standard mplayer, and has a nice bookmark system for bookmarking video/audio streams.

I <3 kmplayer

EDIT :
tried kaffeine. very nice feature set some i wouldn't mind seeing in kmplayer as well but it lacked one of the features i really like about kmplayer (and mplayer) which is the ability to quickly skip forward and backward in the movie using only the keypad. i know that in xine you can do this, but somehow mplayer feels faster doing this. any way to have kaffeine do it as well ?