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miggols99

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Registered: 2007-06-10

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Favourite media player?

What's your favourite media player? For me it's Kaffeine. Plays (almost) everything, after that I'd choose MPlayer. The Kaffeine interface is pretty easy. Once tried KPlayer, but it didn't really play much... MPlayer is gtk right? If it was Qt, I would use it for sure

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rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: Favourite media player?

VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: Favourite media player?

smplayer uses qt (soon qt4). It's in community.

pressh

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Registered: 2005-08-14

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Re: Favourite media player?

smplayer uses qt (soon qt4). It's in community.

If only smplayer would support kio-slaves so I can play directly from our large smb network (it still does not do that right ?)
Therefore I'm stuck with kmplayer with mplayer backend

raymano

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Registered: 2006-10-13

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Re: Favourite media player?

amarok for music
mplayer for videos
codeine for DVDs and VCDs

Last edited by raymano (2007-07-11 20:48:26)

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hussam

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Registered: 2006-03-26

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Re: Favourite media player?

Rhythmbox ( gstreamer ) for music
totem-xine ( xine-lib ) for videos and DVD playback.

Noneus

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From: Munich

Registered: 2006-09-26

Posts: 118

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Re: Favourite media player?

- Exaile(Music)
- MPlayer(Videos)
- VLC(DVDs)
- gxine(DVBT)

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: Favourite media player?

kmplayer uses the mplayer engine and a Qt interface. I think it also supports kioslaves, but I haven't used it in a while.

Zaffe

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 26

Re: Favourite media player?

- Exaile(Music)
- MPlayer(Videos)
- VLC(DVDs)
- gxine(DVBT)

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onearm

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Registered: 2006-07-06

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Re: Favourite media player?

MPlayer+Amarok is all I need

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oli

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2006-02-07

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Re: Favourite media player?

mplayer console and ncmpc

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Preacher

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From: UK

Registered: 2006-09-26

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Re: Favourite media player?

MPD + SONATA combo for music
VLC for video and/or streaming music

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Ankka

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 98

Re: Favourite media player?

I use mplayer, but I really like vlc.

I haven't really found a music app that'd be what I want, mpd is really close but doesn't play cd's.

3nd3r

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Registered: 2002-12-08

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Re: Favourite media player?

It is really hard to answer that because I do not have a favorite.
These are the media players that I use
USED ALWAYS:
audacious, mplayer

USED SOMETIMES:
amarok

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: Favourite media player?

I think I always come back to this setup :
mpd + ncmpc for music
mplayer for video
xine for dvd

For music, I also like amarok a lot in my kde moments (but way too heavy),
and quodlibet is nice too, it goes well with xfce for example (but still a bit too heavy)

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3nd3r

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Re: Favourite media player?

I think I always come back to this setup :
mpd + ncmpc for music
mplayer for video
xine for dvd

For music, I also like amarok a lot in my kde moments (but way too heavy),
and quodlibet is nice too, it goes well with xfce for example (but still a bit too heavy)

I cant get into mpd, I just love the "winamp style" media player, I guess thats why I stick with audacious..

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harlekin

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Registered: 2006-07-13

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Re: Favourite media player?

mpd + ncmpc (music)
mplayer (does the rest <3)

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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: Favourite media player?

rhythmbox for music
vlc for dvd (including iso), divx/xvid avi, flv, gvi

stratego

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Registered: 2007-07-12

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Re: Favourite media player?

mplayer for the majority of my multimedia needs
mpd + ncmpc (for local music)

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: Favourite media player?

I cant get into mpd, I just love the "winamp style" media player, I guess thats why I stick with audacious..

I liked it too, I used xmms in my early linux days, a few years ago, then beep media player.
Maybe I stopped liking them when I was trying more exotic wm, where the special status of xmms/bmp window
didn't play too well.

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chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

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Re: Favourite media player?

Amarok for music and Kaffeine for video files. In case they don't do the job, I have VLC and KMplayer at my disposal as well, but rather rarely used.

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somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

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Re: Favourite media player?

Amarok & Mplayer

The_ouroboros

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From: Pavia, Italy

Registered: 2007-05-28

Posts: 140

Re: Favourite media player?

Rhythmbox(Audio) + Xine(Dvd) + Mplayer(Video)

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daf666

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Registered: 2007-04-08

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Re: Favourite media player?

juk for music, xine for movies