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
Hi,
Personally I would have to say that I don't prefer either of them. I think xine is by far better for DVD's because of it's support for menu's but mplayer seems to be more flexible for playing downloaded video's. Also I like the mplayer plugin better than xine's and it's working like a charm now. So if you ask me use xine for dvd's and mplayer for video-file's (that's what I do anyway).
Bye,
Steffan.
