good video player

mugen · 2008-05-24 10:19:59

Is there any player in linux like GOM which remembers till where we had played last time & also allows us to configure how much seconds to skip when v press the respective buttons?..

imagelife · 2008-05-24 11:01:15

maybe smplayer is your best choice.

abhidg · 2008-05-24 11:31:25

codeine also remembers till where you played last time, but
i dont know if it allows you to configure the no of seconds to skip.

mugen · 2008-05-24 14:53:34

thanks for the suggestions ... i am using totem & vlc ..totem is not at all user friendly especially skipping part & loading subtitles ..VLC doesnt play half the files i have (rmvb etc..) i hope these players u mentioned help my case

Bapman · 2008-05-24 20:33:39

Yeah SMPlayer is really a revolution in Linux video players to me ! It plays quite everything, it is really fast (thanks MPlayer) and good looking (even if it uses QT and I use Gnome...).

rocknrolf77 · 2008-05-25 00:50:31

Second that. smplayer is great. But as a gnome user totem or gnome-mplayer is better for watching small clips. Don't want to wait for the kdelibs to load just for a small clip. But for watching movies it's no problem.

Is there any other great mplayer frontends for mplayer?

sa · 2008-05-25 01:48:24

SMplayer all the way!

Allan · 2008-05-25 01:48:26

The gui that comes with mplayer (gmplayer) is reasonably good - well at least it recognizes all of mplayer's keyboard shortcuts.

Vintendo · 2008-05-25 08:28:20

i like VLC's gui, but mplayer plays more. So i am still using mplayer from the command line. Gnome-mplayer is good but doesn't have enough features.

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pressh · 2008-05-25 08:53:32

rocknrolf77 wrote:

Second that. smplayer is great. But as a gnome user totem or gnome-mplayer is better for watching small clips. Don't want to wait for the kdelibs to load just for a small clip. But for watching movies it's no problem.

smplayer doesn't use kdelibs, it's a pure qt application.

Lyceuhns · 2008-07-05 00:29:48

SMPlayer! I'm using GTK, but was my best choice (no KDE libs, just a little and sweet QT4). ;D
Does everything (not very nice with DVD-Menus here), MPlayer + VLC + someone = SMPlayer

brynjolf · 2008-07-05 00:53:46

Is there a way to make smplayer remember your aspect ratio? Like MPC on windows? The only thing I don't like about SMPlayer is that CTRL+Q is ALT+F4 which of course can be changed.

Procyon · 2008-07-05 01:55:58

I use mplayer for almost everything. I start it from mc.

For DVDs with menus and such mplayer doesn't work, and I have to use vlc. I tried to use ogle for this, but it doesn't work too well.

EDIT: you can change skip amounts in mplayer too. In ~/.mplayer/input add "LEFT seek -2" e.g. to reduce the amount of time skipped back from -10 (default), which is a bit much.
Some video formats don't respond well to this though.

EDIT2: and then just today I run into a video file with subtitles all over the place in mplayer. So I had to play it with vlc (first file that isn't a DVD I used it on) because it removes all encoding from subtitles.

Last edited by Procyon (2008-07-05 18:42:50)

schivmeister · 2008-07-05 18:09:30

There are files that sometimes only VLC will be able to play which are supposed to be playable by mplayer, so I've ended up with more than one video player =/ Same goes for audio players.

Archer1X · 2013-02-26 10:06:13

I voted for UMPlayer..you can find it in AUR..
It is very good..especially when it remembered every single settings for every video you played..
Example, it will remember the subtitle (so you don;t have to load it every time you play a video),
and also the current position of your video when you closed the player..

It might be not a light video player, but it get the job done better than any other players that
I have tried before..

kokoko3k · 2013-02-26 12:05:24

Well, i mantain xt7-player-git (xt7-player-git from aur)
Another one that (optionally) remembers the position on exit, uses qt+gambas.

bernarcher · 2013-02-26 13:15:39

Archer1X this thread is really old so there won't be many seeing your post.
Closing, see our policy about necro threads.

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