The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 22, 2010 20:15 UTC (Mon) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)
In reply to: The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com) by pr1268
Parent article: The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

I agree. Mplayer is the most reliable player I've tried, in the sense that
it handles the widest range of input/output options. But it doesn't have
a spiffy GUI, and so far as I know cannot deal with DVD menus. After that
I would place the totem/gstreamer player in second place - another curious
omission from the list. I've never had any luck with xine, with or
without wrapping it in Kaffeine. As to VLC, I quote from the
article: "VLC is a bit more complex to get started with...", with which I
can only concur.

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 22, 2010 23:31 UTC (Mon) by codebeard (guest, #63144) [Link] (1 responses)

Actually, mplayer does support DVD menus: mplayer dvdnav:///

The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 23, 2010 18:21 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

I've had to use mplayer's support for dvd navigation to rip dvds occasionally.

Sony/BMG likes to put bogus chapter information and physical defects into their DVDs and the only way to properly play some of them is from the DVD menu. I had the newest Batman movie that I got for a present and I wanted to have a copy for my phone. Using mplayer/mencoder support for dvdnav stuff I was able to get the movie ripped quite easily were more naive tools would of failed.