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Good Video Player for Linux

  • 16-07-2009 01:35AM
    #1
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey, so I'm just getting into Linux, using Mint Linux and I like it... I wanted to play some AVI files today, so i downloaded VLC and ran it, and while it worked it was slow & choppy in places... I viewed the exact same files in VLC through windows (i dual boot) and they worked perfectly...

    Is there a different program to use to watch videos that's as good as VLC is in Windows??



    Cheers.


Comments

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


    gmplayer is probably what you're after.

    edit: If vlc was crap in linux but not windows on the same file then you should probably check your video drivers too.


  • #3
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Khannie wrote: »
    gmplayer is probably what you're after.
    Indeed, I prefer it to VLC, mainly for the sheer amount of tweaking you can do with Mplayer on the command line, plus its tie in with MEncoder.


  • #4
    bman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭bman


    MPlayer is the only video player I ever use on Linux. VLC is probably the second best out there though imo.


  • #5
    ak27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭ak27


    gxine is a good video player if you want to try that.


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