Best Mediaplayer based on 3 criterias?

philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

Can anyone give some advice on the best mediaplayer if my interests are

1) most stable under Gentoo Linux
2) has support for most codecs
3) integrates nicely with Firefox in the first place and possibly with Konqueror
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di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

I've always been very happy with Mplayer. There's also a Mozilla/Firefox plugin available in Portage
so that's what I'd use...

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Stolz · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:57 am Post subject:

mplayer

yngwin · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject:

MPlayer indeed.
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philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

Many thanks for input from all . Mplayer it will be then :)
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Kern3lP4nic · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject:

I would try smplayer. It uses mplayer engine but it has a far superioro gui (imho) and is suited for kde. I don't know how about konqueror integration though, but it may be worth trying..

yngwin · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject:

If you want a gui, I agree with the recommendation for SMPlayer. Simply the best frontend for mplayer there is. Available of course in berkano overlay.
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philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

But SMplayer is not in the portage tree........? Or have I missed the right naming?
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yngwin · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject:

bosele · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 90

i like gnome-mplayer, simple but very functional gui

WakkaDojo · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:49 am Post subject:

Mplayer. No gtk use flag. The gui just brings ya down!

philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

yngwin,

I searched the web abd found berkano and bens overlays.
But I am uncertain how to proceed with "own" e-builds.
How will e.g. emerge -u world work with your own e-builds?
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yngwin · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject:

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-508174.html and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds (when that is back up). Yes, emerge -u world will work with that.
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philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

Thanks!
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Lori · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

I was (and still am) a big MPlayer fan myself, and never heard of SMPlayer before. I tried KMPlayer before, but it didn't add any value to GMplayer so I kinda ditched it. Well, after hearing about SMPlayer, I thought I'd give it a try, especially since it is based on Qt4 and I use KDE 4. One word: WOW! First of all, I really love the Media Player Classic look, help screens in the configuration dialog (no need to 'man mplayer'), and stability! Using KDE 4 with compositing on, if I started MPlayer or GMPlayer with the xv output driver it crashed X. Strangely not the case with SMPlayer. I currently use the x11 driver. GMPlayer/MPlayer would not resize the video with this output driver (on full screen it just centered the video on the screen using it's normal size), with SMPlayer this works as well. I suppose it would work with plain MPlayer as well, with some options, but I thought is was a driver limitation and didn't even look.

Anyway, kudos to the SMPlayer development team! It's my new video player of choice.
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yngwin · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

And now it is available in portage!
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rwf · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 234 Location: mi.us

I prefer/use gecko-mediaplayer (a plugin for Firefox and Opera); and gnome-mplayer, a gui frontend for mplayer. Don't be turned off by the name 'gnome' -- the gnome-mplayer only requires gconf. These packages (gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer) are written by the same person who wrote mplayerplug-in

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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:32 am Post subject:

Gxine far surpasses mplayer IMHO. Mplayer requires so much more to compile, and in my experience, is nowhere near as stable as gxine.

Also, in my experience, playing a DVD with Mplayer is a frustrating event. Whereas when I play one under gxine, all I have to do is click File->DVD, and the DVD starts to play. With Mplayer, I'd do the same thing, then I'd have to mess with it to get beyond the DVD's menu to actually play it.

Because of that, I no longer have Mplayer installed. It's a hog, and it's a hog that barely worked on my system. Gxine is much more gracious, and you don't need to tweak the color, hue, brightness, and contrast settings to get a decent looking image.

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