On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:31, Brian C. Huffman wrote: > I'd like to have a show of hands of who's for xine and who's for > mplayer. Which one is the better choice for a complete multimedia > solution? I've used both and have to say that I've had problems with > both. > > With xine I've been able to play most all formats with the exception of > Windows media (although I know the codecs are out there). I've gotten > the gxine frontend which includes a plugin for mozilla. Unfortunately > I've had many many crashes of mozilla / xine when using the plugin. > > With mplayer (which I've just recently installed), I've had better > stability (although it has crashed on inline movies), but I don't know > the extent of the formats that it can play. Also I haven't seen a > frontend to mplayer so far....I assume that one does exist. > > Thoughts? Experiences? > > Thanks in advance! > Brian I personally prefer Xine I had a ball installing I have downloaded plugins and codecs from the net, Occasionally on some very old DVDs it goes crazy with display settings, Otherwise I have over 60 movies on my disk all of which rely on various windows media codecs, all play. Another thing with Media Player 9 it almost always wants to download a new codec every time I have a new clip or Movie Xine seems happy to use what it got. Mplayer I could not get it to work after 100 shots at it. -- Chadley Wilson <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
