and from there you can also have soooouseful information about mplayer, you didn't read dokumentation, didn't you?, shame! :D [don't take that so seriously, I didn't read them either when I first time tried MPlayer :) ]
Then one thing, Xine is britty good but like you said it is unstable. :(
I like more xine than mplayer, xine is better DVD player, even thought it is hard to get difrent regions to play, (mplayer handles that britty easy), gxine is waste of time, only thing were it is really good when using gnome and you need to listen radio or watch internet tv (I watch bbc news, for example)
And best things in xine is that it can change audio/subtitle track on air. In MPlayer it will restart video from beginning. and in MPlayer you can't change multipletrack file(aka .ogm) subtitles, only audio track change is supported.
I give xine 8/10 and MPlayer 6/10, MPlayer is light weight media player when Xine is very hard one.
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Subject: mplayer vs. xine
From: "Brian C. Huffman" <sheep@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:31:28 -0500
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
