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philip Guru
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: Best Mediaplayer based on 3 criterias? |
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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 _________________ /Phil |
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di1bert l33t
Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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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 Moderator
Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 3028 Location: Hong Kong
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:57 am Post subject: |
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yngwin Retired Dev
Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 4572 Location: Suzhou, China
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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MPlayer indeed. _________________ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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mark_alec Bodhisattva
Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 6066 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: Best Mediaplayer based on 3 criterias? |
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philip wrote: | 3) integrates nicely with Firefox in the first place and possibly with Konqueror | Another vote for mplayer here. Use mplayerplug-in with Firefox and kmplayer with Konqueror. _________________ www.gentoo.org.au || #gentoo-au |
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philip Guru
Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks for input from all . Mplayer it will be then :) _________________ /Phil |
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Kern3lP4nic Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 116 Location: Someone, somewhere, in the north of Italy
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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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.. |
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yngwin Retired Dev
Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 4572 Location: Suzhou, China
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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philip Guru
Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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But SMplayer is not in the portage tree........? Or have I missed the right naming? _________________ /Phil |
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yngwin Retired Dev
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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philip wrote: | But SMplayer is not in the portage tree........? Or have I missed the right naming? |
yngwin wrote: | Available of course in berkano overlay. |
_________________ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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bosele Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 90
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:11 am Post subject: |
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i like gnome-mplayer, simple but very functional gui |
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WakkaDojo Apprentice
Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 174 Location: Massachusetts
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:49 am Post subject: |
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Mplayer. No gtk use flag. The gui just brings ya down! |
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philip Guru
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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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? _________________ /Phil |
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yngwin Retired Dev
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philip Guru
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! _________________ /Phil |
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Lori Guru
Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 338 Location: Barcelona, Spain
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ "The hunt is sweeter then the kill."
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yngwin Retired Dev
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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And now it is available in portage! _________________ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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rwf Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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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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i92guboj Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 10315 Location: Córdoba (Spain)
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: Best Mediaplayer based on 3 criterias? |
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philip wrote: | 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 |
Mplayer meets all this conditions, and in which regard codecs support it is exceptional. It can play almost anything, even broken or incomplete files and even flash video files. It can't handle drm encripted crap, though, and I am very happy about that.
For music, amarok is very good, though it's not precisely lightweight, and I don't know if there's any kind of plugin for firefox. It integrates seamlessly with konqueror. I also like kaffeine for videos, it is very complete, and certainly, the xine backend is much more suitable than mplayer for dvds. It can also almost anything. |
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pappy_mcfae Watchman
Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 5999 Location: Pomona, California.
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:32 am Post subject: |
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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.
Blessed be!
Pappy _________________ This space left intentionally blank, except for these ASCII symbols. |
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