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what is the best Media player for Linux

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rajudotcom Original post #1
Jul 20, 2008 at 3:08 PM
what is the best Media player for Linux?
post your views...
Thank you.:)
praka123
Jul 20, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Exaile on Gnome or Amarok on Kde . :)

though ,I am happy with rhythmbox :D
j1n M@tt
Jul 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM
hw abt Totem player praka??
MetalheadGautham
Jul 20, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Kaffeine. Period. Its the best media player I have ever used, for any platform.

hw abt Totem player praka??
totem is a bit too simple. it lacks most advanced features like postprocessing and deinterlacing.

But Kaffeine is the big daddy. its light, but its got every single feature I ever needed. It even has a built in file browser, so that memory is conserved a bit.
NucleusKore
Jul 20, 2008 at 4:30 PM
you said media player

Go for Mplayer. With w32codecs it plays everything- mov, wmv, etc. etc.
MetalheadGautham
Jul 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM
you said media player

Go for Mplayer. With w32codecs it plays everything- mov, wmv, etc. etc.
so does kaffeine and totem.
but kaffeine got most of the features right.

IF you want MPlayer, use the frontend called SMPlayer. :D
T
Jul 20, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Kaffeine
praka123
Jul 20, 2008 at 5:59 PM
oh! media player? I personally swears with Xine. but mplayer/gmplayer will be what most gonna sought :p
MetalheadGautham
Jul 20, 2008 at 6:01 PM
oh! media player? I personally swears with Xine. but mplayer/gmplayer will be what most gonna sought :p
Kaffeine uses Xine. :D
MPlayer has better rendering on some videos, but performance varies. So I always have three media players - Kaffeine (damn, the kaffeine mplayer engine is loooong gone :mad:), SMPlayer and VLC Media Player 0.9 (the QT4 edition nightlie builds)
CadCrazy
CadCrazy #10
Jul 20, 2008 at 6:03 PM
F*ck u all :D
Kisi ne apne jeevan kal mein VLC player pe music suna hai kabhi ????????????????????????
Iske aage a,b,c,k,m ------ sare player fail hain.
MetalheadGautham
Jul 20, 2008 at 6:05 PM
F*ck u all :D
Kisi ne apne jeevan kal mein VLC player pe music suna hai kabhi ????????????????????????
Iske aage a,b,c,k,m ------ sare player fail hain.
I am a 1337 VLC user and I must say its performance is quite ordinary, unless you use a nightlie build of version 0.9 :D.

Its main issue is that it does not have a dll loader.
CadCrazy
CadCrazy #12
Jul 20, 2008 at 7:14 PM
What do you guys mean by performance ???
I found vlc's music quality best of 'em all and no i use daylie version no nightlie for me

Han pata hai tu Mod hai :D
NucleusKore
Jul 20, 2008 at 7:16 PM
VLC does not play .rm and .mov, does it?