The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
Posted Feb 22, 2010 20:40 UTC (Mon) by juliank (guest, #45896)Parent article: The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
players are those using GStreamer, because GStreamer is modular, and
provides an ffmpeg plugin.
Posted Feb 22, 2010 21:27 UTC (Mon)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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(It's amazing how many GUIish video players don't support a fullscreen
(disclaimer: it's a couple of years since I last hunted for a decent video
Posted Feb 22, 2010 21:49 UTC (Mon)
by nirbheek (subscriber, #54111)
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Posted Feb 22, 2010 23:01 UTC (Mon)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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I don't seem to be having much luck with PA and video players right now.
I noted the freeze (the only class of failure I'd then noticed) on the PA
(well, OK, I'll try to track the bug down myself, but it's 11pm here, so
Posted Feb 23, 2010 3:56 UTC (Tue)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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I suppose we still need an occasional reminder why it's called "unstable".
For a long time Gstreamer-derived programs failed frequently, but not for the last two years. Now Xine is the least reliable video player, and mplayer often fails where totem succeeds. I do not often need to try VLC.
Posted Feb 23, 2010 13:41 UTC (Tue)
by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
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Posted Feb 22, 2010 23:11 UTC (Mon)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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And Totem does not clutter the screen with GUI elements in full screen mode. If you move the
I use Totem because it's simple to use and gstreamer is quite effective nowadays. It supports
A nice thing about Totem also is it's plugins. It has a DNLA browser (uPNP media client
Oh... SIMPLE UI == KICK_ASS. It's something that is soooo hard to get right, but when
I use Mplayer for 2 things...
VLC is cool, but it's UI is totally overkill for my personal tastes. It takes 3-4 times as long to do
VLC does rule in the fact that it's cross-platform and is just about the best that OS X and
Posted Feb 23, 2010 13:33 UTC (Tue)
by sorpigal (guest, #36106)
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Posted Feb 22, 2010 22:06 UTC (Mon)
by Los__D (guest, #15263)
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(It's amazing how many GUIish video players don't support a fullscreen
mode without controls and other GUI elements cluttering the screen. vlc
does. Any others?) I don't think I have ever seen a GUI video player that didn't? Some will show controls when you move the mouse, but all (that I can remember) will hide them when you don't, if the pointer is not hovering above them.
Posted Feb 22, 2010 23:04 UTC (Mon)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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I don't think I have much luck with video players. (I also hardly ever
Posted Feb 24, 2010 17:59 UTC (Wed)
by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
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The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
full-screen mode with keybindings for smaller and larger
fast-forward/rewind (like mplayer and xine do), and were vaguely sane to
compile. Maybe banshee is, but I've been steering clear of the C# monster
so I haven't tried it yet. I haven't found anything else yet.
mode without controls and other GUI elements cluttering the screen. vlc
does. Any others?)
player.)
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
doesn't crash, unlike last time I tried, but the sound is so juddery it's
unusable. It seems to be using pulseaudio directly (the lethal juddering
is normally a sign of using the pulseaudio alsa plugin).
If they don't freeze solid on first fast-forward, they judder :/ I guess
PA (and fast-forward/rewind) is the only common factor.
list an hour ago. I'm sure it'll get fixed soon enough... there's
definitely a bug here. Paging Lennart, you're our only hope!
not tonight.)
Totem was crashing at startup here, too, for a few weeks until I fixed it with "apt-get install totem-common". Turned out that recently packaged versions depend on a similarly recent version of totem-common, but don't list the dependency in the package metadata. To be precise, totem 2.28.5 crashes when run with totem-common 2.28.1, at least on vanilla Debian unstable.
totem packaging
totem packaging
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
mouse then controls will come up, but you just have to not move your mouse around for a bit
and they'll go away again.
easy playlist building so if I have a bunch of little videos I want to watch in a row or a music
directory I want to play then it's nice.
support) as well as Totem plugins and a few other things. If I find a nice proxy in Great Britian
then I expect that it would be handy for watching BBC stuff. Even though the plugins are
kinda half-baked right now (buggy) they are quite nice when they work. I really wish they'd
work better then that would easily catapault Totem to the top of the list.
somebody is actually able to pull it off then it leads to a very pleasent user experience.
A) for simple music player. I have a few small scripts for launching mplayer to listen to online
streams and whatnot. I like it for that.
B) I use it for 'serious' movie watching due to it's advanced support of _EVERYTHING_, it's high
performance, and it's reliability.
anything in VLC compared to Totem and everything is much more confusing... if I don't care
about something I don't want to see it. I don't care about 99% of the options other then 'Play
Video' or 'Play DVD'. It is very nice for advanced media users that don't like the command
line, but I like the command line and thus mplayer is more handy for my personal use.
Windows users have to look forward to using... and VLC belongs on everybody's system due to
it's ability to stream video and support capture hardware. VERY nice.
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
nothing visible other than spray Gtk warnings. The last time I tried it,
it crashed within seconds of startup.
watch videos, so I don't much care if they don't work. My own damn fault
for never debugging them, I suppose.)
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)