Best video player?

StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

With Kaboodle the audio and video seem a little out of sync. Is there another one that does a better job?

Zeitgeist · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject:

I suggest Totem with the Xine backend as the best video player available for Linux.

But anything with the Xine backend + win32 codecs plays the same.

StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

win32 codecs? Tell me more. Wouldn't that require something like Wine?

And how do I get Totem? Is it available by Portage?

EDIT: Yow, totem is a little heavy on the gnome dependencies, is there a good alternative for KDE?

gozu · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 55

do you have the kde-mulitmedia packages? nautan is ok i guess. i still prefer totem. (does anyone know how to get totem to play in proper full screen? thanx

mabouya · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Matinik

I've been afraid of the gstreamer backend for a long time... I decided to BMG my gnome 2.4, and also to GST my totem... Man, I'm happy. I'll comment later on stability... let's say it has already crashed (two times the first two times I launched it). Since then, it just works.

edit: of course, I'm talking about the GST based Totem... since evryone knows that BMG Gnome just never crashes

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

I've found mplayer to be generally excellent. It handles pretty much any video format I throw at it.

StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

Ok, I'll give mplayer a try.

aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

zez · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 6:05 am Post subject:

Actually, included with kde-multimedia (I think) is kaboodle which uses xine as the backend. It's not very feature rich, but is pretty simple and seems to work pretty well.

mabouya · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Matinik

Okay, after a full day testing, I must say GStreamer (GST) still won't do it

I'm getting my Totem back to Xine-Lib, where it belongs...

StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

cylgalad · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 1327 Location: France

mplayer for any videos except dvd, xmms for audio, ogle for dvds (but my PS2 is better for that job :lol:

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The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

And if you like pretty GUI's, run mplayer by typing "gmplayer" (you need GTK installed). But it works much better than with KDE some of the KDE frontends you can find.

vivek · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:12 am Post subject:

borism · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Australia

MK · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:04 pm Post subject:

I like both Xine and Mplayer, but I've used mplayer the most. Only problem I got with mplayer is that sound/picture is out of sync.. Suppose I should downgrade it

GentooBox · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1168 Location: Denmark

Mplayer is simply the best.

i think there is a QT port of mplayer somewhere called kmplayer or something.
- its in portage.
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so · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 115 Location: Roma

I use mplayer and I'm very happy :wink:

triad · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:06 am Post subject:

mplayer does rock....

It's Mozilla Plug-in is another story. Yekky.
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joem · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:49 am Post subject:

I also like xine-lib (use gxine as front end)

I would recomend using a qt front end to xine if you are a kde person.

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

shm · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:17 pm Post subject:

I like kaffeine.. it's a nice KDE xine frontend..
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sklettke · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 352 Location: Madison, WI

For whatever reason, playing the Matrix 3 trailer (quicktime) with mplayer was very, very laggy (and it mentioned that my computer wasn't fast enough to play). Using Kaffeine (xine-libs), the playback was silky smooth.

My guess is that some config was set differently. Any suggestions?

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Zeitgeist · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 6:34 am Post subject:

Xine also has a much better Mozilla plugin than MPlayers that "just works." I've ran into a lot of trouble trying to play QT with Mplayer's but once I found Xine's (which is included in GXine) or you can get it on the web standalone, works great.