The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 22, 2010 20:04 UTC (Mon) by alvieboy (guest, #51617)
In reply to: The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com) by pr1268
Parent article: The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Thinking exactly the same thing. I actually only use mplayer, but I guess folks out there don't like command line (I know, it has a GUI also, but I never use it anyway).

Plus, it was one of the first players out there - and an highly optimized one.

Alvie

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 22, 2010 21:08 UTC (Mon) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

there's a GNOME mplayer frontend, for the cli-averse.

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 22, 2010 21:35 UTC (Mon) by loevborg (guest, #51779) [Link] (5 responses)

In my opinion, the pick of the pack for Linux is SMplayer. It's an exquisite mplayer frontend, which combines all the beloved features of that old workhorse with the ease of use of a well thought-out GUI. (For example: easy jumping back and forth in subtitles; drag and drop of subtitles files to a running movie; it remembers the position in the movie where you left off the last time.) Best of all, it's actively developed (in contrast to mplayer's home-brew GUI, which has long been abandoned). Give it a try!

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 22, 2010 22:11 UTC (Mon) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link] (4 responses)

I agree, SMplayer(thus MPlayer) is definitely the best video player for Linux out there. After that comes Totem+Gstreamer. After that, the void. VLC, quite frankly, sucks!

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 22, 2010 22:13 UTC (Mon) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link]

Ah, I forgot, I'd place Gnome-Mplayer too before Totem.

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 22, 2010 23:30 UTC (Mon) by maro (guest, #34315) [Link] (2 responses)

As much as I dislike VLC, I've found that it's the only player that allows
me to play DVD's, which is something I do on a daily basis. I realize there
are legal problems with DVD playback, but it is truly sad that all-but-one
open source players in 2010 are still not able to do this when the other
platforms has had numerous applications for this in well over a decade. I
can imagine that for people new to Linux, this is quite a big WTF.

I'd love to be proven wrong or hear of any alternatives though.

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 23, 2010 0:00 UTC (Tue) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] (1 responses)

Anything that uses GStreamer (e.g., totem) has had decent DVD support for quite some time.

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 23, 2010 0:08 UTC (Tue) by svena (guest, #20177) [Link]

...and Xine, and MPlayer, and...