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#1 2008-11-04 12:10:45

smakked
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Movie Player that isnt VLC

Whats a good movie player that will play anything you throw at it?
I liked VLC till it became QT based, i dont want QT on my system.
Does Mplayer or totem play all files? they seem to do alright  any others?


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#2 2008-11-04 12:22:28

Allan
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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

Both will play all files as long as you install the gstreamer0.10-{good,bad,ugly}-plugins for totem or codecs for mplayer.

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#3 2008-11-04 12:40:58

smakked
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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

Thats what i was hoping for thanks for the confirmation smile


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#4 2008-11-04 13:27:49

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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

in my experience mplayer has the best compatibility of totem, mplayer, vlc and plays some files which totem and vlc have issues with. This is so even if you install all gstreamer0.10 good,bad,ugly packages...


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#5 2008-11-04 13:28:22

Andy Mack
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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

for some reason some videos have the green stripe down the left hand side of the picture when using totem, anyone know a remedy?

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#6 2008-11-04 18:49:28

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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

mplayer can't load isos and get the subs from them. Totem-xine was able to do this for me until the last xine update (dunno whats wrong).
Try out gnome-mplayer or totem, I think one of them would suit you fine.

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#7 2008-11-04 18:56:40

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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

Mplayer-svn, gnome-mplayer 0.9.1 and gecko-mediaplayer 9.0 are the best combination as far as I'm concerned. This setup would be approaching perfect if Mplayer had gapless audio playback.

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#8 2008-11-04 19:36:29

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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

*sigh* gappless playback is a big issue in linux, good to have mpd wink

I would recommend to use mplayer without gui (e.g. mplayer-nogui-svn from aur) and use another frontend, like gnome-mplayer, which is pretty nice. But mplayer as movieplayer without gui is aweful, it loads fast as hell and you can do quite much with your keyboard. All you need is a nice config file in .mplayer for nice font rendering for subtitles and such stuff. The web will show you many nice configs. I use this all time, love it!

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#9 2008-11-04 19:57:36

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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

Hmm try MPlayer or just VLC via WINE which is working better than the native version from pacman (couldn`t get the player and video window into 1 window => the win ver does it automatically)

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#10 2008-11-04 20:33:21

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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

Xauthority wrote:

Hmm try MPlayer or just VLC via WINE which is working better than the native version from pacman (couldn`t get the player and video window into 1 window => the win ver does it automatically)

yeah... that is really bad...

And it is not possible to fix that?

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#11 2008-11-05 15:15:04

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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

haha. just like firefox have faster autocompletion in urlbar in wine than native linux version tongue is it really that hard to code for linux?


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#12 2008-11-05 22:29:26

smakked
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Re: Movie Player that isnt VLC

No i wont be using wine as to me it defeats the purpose of using Linux.
gnome-mplayer has played anything i through at it so im happy with that. Most stuff i watch is xvid anyway so no big issue really.
And i dont use any of these for Music playback, Im a Rythymbox fan for that wink

Thanks for ths suggestions


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