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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

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[POLL] Your way to play videos

Hi! i think this will be interesting... i for example use:

AVI's, MPG's, etc: Smplayer
DVD Discs: VLC (best working menu's)

It will be interesting too if somebody have a mplayer command with parameters with best settings for decoding filters such as deblocking, deringing, postprocessing, etc, to share with us

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FeatherMonkey

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 313

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

In regards to deblocking there's this script I have to confess though I keep the pkgbuild up to date I don't really use it but plenty of people like it. Its actively being developed its only a script but has more options than I understand.

Its h264enc in aur but has the options you mention also prints the mencoder command afterwards. also would imagine xvidenc(Same developer) would have the options but as said I don't even know what deringing means

As for playback I agree have both Vlc and Mplayer depends on use.

leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Examples of deringing... i think i see the feature in smplayer... but dont remember now...

Deringing Cartoons by Image Analogies
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/pape … ifact.html

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

AVI's, MPG's, etc: MPlayer
DVD Discs: xine-ui (working menu's)

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Pretty simple here:

KMPlayer most of the time. But it the rare case that it doesn't work, like on some 3gp files, or when the aspect tag doesn't match the actual video size, I use VLC. I also do some testing with FFPlay. I never use any of the other features you asked about about.

FeatherMonkey

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 313

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Like I said I know that script gives you all these types of options, easy to choose and adjust then just before starting to re-encode it'll print the mencoder command its about to use. Though now I know what deringing is now perhaps next time h264enc gives me the option I can make an informed decision rather than my default return.

I suspect it'll help while you work out the correct command as from what I can see the mencoder command ends up about 3 lines long.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Just have mplayer installed. (:

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

VLC for anything that requires subtitles to be detected and displayed.  Otherwise totem.

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Xine for every movie watching task,
handbrake for every movie backup task ;-)

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Abadaar

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-10

Posts: 28

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

VLC for everything.

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

SMPlayer for everything. DVD? I don't play them on PC.

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

mplayer, I havent used or needed anything else for awhile.

robotangel

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From: cologne/germany

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 63

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

I always use kaffeine (xine). If something doesn't work with kaffeine, I try VLC.

iggy

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From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig

Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 367

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

totem-xine - because of dvd menus and ac3 passthrough! best solution so far...

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Mplayer, from the command line. Partly because of the lack of DVD menus.

lessthanjake

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-11-09

Posts: 319

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

totem for everything except DVD whre I'm using ogle.

Moparx

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Registered: 2006-02-05

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

mplayer for videos and sometimes DVD.
I usually use xine to watch DVDs because I can use the DVD menus.

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Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Mplayer for videos (hdtv tv recordings), xine predominately for DVD's. Xine for the menu ability and I like the zoom feature.

onearm

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From: Anywhere but here

Registered: 2006-07-06

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

VLC for the dvds. MPlayer for everything else

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Navi_

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Registered: 2007-07-21

Posts: 17

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

mplayer, w00t w00t.  No need for anything else.

Shaika-Dzari

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2006-04-14

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Mplayer only

I don't really care about dvd menus, I only want to listen the movie...( I also don't care about special feature )

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Mplayer only

I don't really care about dvd menus, I only want to listen the movie...( I also don't care about special feature )

The most annoying thing is finding out which title is the main one.
And also which languages / subtitles are available.

I like having a dvd menu for these (especially first one).
But maybe I'm missing something. IIRC, it's possible to display the tracks using lsdvd or some other tools. But I like checking out the dvd menus anyway

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,958

Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

VLC for streaming videos, Kaffeine for all others.

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Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Kaffeine for DVDs.
Mplayer from the commandline for some DVDs.
Kmplayer for integration with konqueror and most basic "double click" style watching and listening.
VLC for viewing isos.

I've played with Smplayer some, too, and it's extremely nicely laid out - it seems like they've spent a little time considering UI.  It just hasn't replaced any of my standbys yet.  I like codeine a lot, too, in concept, but I've never figured out how to pass it non-deprecated deinterlacing options, and don't want to spend the time to learn how when I'm mostly happy with the other options I've listed.

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Cynical

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Registered: 2006-11-07

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Re: [POLL] Your way to play videos

Totem for everything. I used to use vlc more, but totem has improved a lot recently.