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What media player do you all use?

  • 17-12-2006 2:10pm
    #1
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭


    I personally think Amarok rocks :) but what do the rest of you think and reasons why would be nice :)


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  • #2
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    amp and ogg123 if i'm just playing music


  • #3
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    VLC all the way. It's so light-weight and enough features to confuse you.


  • #4
    djmarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    Amarok or Ampache for music, Kaffeine or mplayer for video clips


  • #5
    NutJob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭NutJob


    vlc for video
    amp for music


  • #6
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,738 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Been trying Songbird since yesterday. I kind of like it, but invariably find myself going back to XMMS whenever I try some new library-based prog.
    Xine for video - currently trying to figure out the joys of playing 32-bit codec-encoded files on a 64-bit system.


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  • #7
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    (g)mplayer for video
    xmms for audio


  • #8
    sound_wave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭sound_wave


    Music: Rhythmbox
    Video: VLC


  • #9
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    ethernet wrote:
    VLC all the way. It's so light-weight

    mplayer and gxine are both much more lightweight than VLC.

    I mostly use totem or mplayer for video and beep for audio.


  • #10
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    leeroybrown wrote:
    (g)mplayer for video
    xmms for audio

    Ditto.


  • #11
    Goodshape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Amarok for music; lovely software.

    VLC for video because it tends to work with everything.


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  • #12
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    do any of you use Xine?
    I find its great..


  • #13
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Xine is very powerful but not very user-friendly.

    I also used Jajuk [Java-based music player] for a while. I really liked it. Great functionality.


  • #14
    djmarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    you'll find Xine engine is the backend for a lot of linux media players


  • #15
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    including Amarok but what about the actual Xine video player with the graphical frontend. The remote control thing is really good and it plays DVD's like a charm.


  • #16
    PhantomBeaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭PhantomBeaker


    Personally I use Audacious but that's because gentoo dropped support for xmms (no maintainers), and I use mplayer for video.


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