> 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. > There exists a frontend for mplayer, it is called gmplayer. you get it normally from the same source as mplayer. HTH Roger
