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What video player do you use?

  • 08-09-2010 10:48am
    #1
    Mathiasb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭


    What video player do you use, and why?

    I use mplayer (smplayer sometimes) because of VDPAU. I see some use VLC, is there a reason to use that instead of mplayer?

    Or perhaps it's just a matter of GUI preference.
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  • #2
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Mathiasb wrote: »
    What video player do you use, and why?

    I use mplayer (smplayer sometimes) because of VDPAU. I see some use VLC, is there a reason to use that instead of mplayer?

    Or perhaps it's just a matter of GUI preference.


    VLC now has GPU acceleration from version 1.1 onwards and its incredibly lightweight


    Its the best general media player. :pac:

    Mplayer has no decent gnome frontend.


  • #3
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    SMPlayer.


  • #4
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,115 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I started using VLC because it was the only one that could reliably play a video from a NAS box over SMB, and stuck with it because I like the controls etc. You can do everything from the keyboard, including slow motion playback.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #5
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    VLC just always seemed handiest to me, I've never had to worry about codecs or whatever as they seem to come with it, seems to be easy to work with CDs/DVDs, easy enough to change or remove audio/subtitle track.

    I actually don't use the keyboard controls that much (except when I accidentally have it focused and end up ruining the video by trying to type on IRC :P) so the GUI is definitely a help at times.

    Just seems a lot easier/better for someone who doesn't have any specific needs beyond "Playing whatever video files I get easily".


  • #6
    eightcell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭eightcell


    VLC all the way!


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  • #7
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭KAGY


    Another vote for VLC,
    why,
    cross platform - I use linux and windows
    just plays everything and anything
    got some useful tweaks (resync sound, change aspect (my laptop doesn't have 16:9 output for my tv, but if I force the aspect of the video to 4:3, it looks squashed on the laptop but perfect on the TV!)

    And if you have an android phone, you can control it with GMote over WiFi. Pure laziness....


  • #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    smplayer, for the built-in subtitle downloader more than anything.


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