Best linux video/divx player?

[jinduy]

I found a couple but can anyone recommend a good one?

 

[sciencewhiz]

I like mplayer. Xine seems to be the other big one.

 

[Crusty]

I personally use mplayer. SImple easy to use. But many others recommend Xine.

 

[jinduy]

thanks i'm currently installing xine which is a pain right now... i think i'll try mplayer right now...

 

[Vad3r]

another for mplayer here

 

[Spyro]

Mplayer rulez!

 

[Vadatajs]

I recommend Xine. It offers smoother playback under load (on my system anyway) than mplayer. Plus mplayer will not run with tvtime running, xine does this fine. Otherwise mplayer works, but is not my favorite.

 

[civad]

Either mplayer or Xine. You could also give totem a try ("A simple media player for the Gnome desktop based on
xine")

 

[Kadarin]

I use Totem. Seems to work fine and has a nice thumbnailing feature.. In addition, somewhere in the process of installing it on Gentoo, it seems to have installed every codec currently in use, so I can play darn near anything.

 

[cleverhandle]

I use both xine (gxine, actually) and mplayer - haven't tried totem yet. For me, the navigation and bottom pop-up panel in mplayer make it better for full length, full screen material. For short clips and as a web-plugin, the simpler interface of gxine is more convenient.

 

[civad]

I use Totem. Seems to work fine and has a nice thumbnailing feature..

Thats the one.. I was trying to remember the app which had the thumbnails feature.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
I use Totem. Seems to work fine and has a nice thumbnailing feature.. In addition, somewhere in the process of installing it on Gentoo, it seems to have installed every codec currently in use, so I can play darn near anything.

Hmmm, I think I may try that....

 

[drag]

I like Xine personally. MPlayer is very similar and Xine and mplayer are pretty close since they borrow code and codecs and stuff from each other. It's my impression that MPlayer does most of the grunt work with codecs and making the various formats work, while Xine just works on the user interface, so there is a big rivalry between them.

Also Xine kinda skirts with psuedo-legal stuff like supporting most of what you need to veiw DVD's. Only a couple extra downloads and you can access region encoded and protected DVDs. So that's a sorta bad and sorta good thing.

Their DVD support is cool, they borrowed features from another 3rd program so that when you have DVD's that have a menu in the beginning you can use your mouse to select the different options.

I think if your aiming for the best quality and highest standards Mplayer is closer to the ideal then Xine is.

But that's just my impressions, I realy lack the skills(not a audio-freak type and I sometimes need glasses) and hardware quality to really discern much differences in quality...

edit: Also if your having problems with dependances and stuff, that's more of a fault with your distro, If you are using a RPM-based distro, be sure to check out using a good package manager like apt-get for RPM (freshrpms.net), Yum (commonly used with Redhat, but is originally from Yellow dog linux) or urpmi wrapper from Mandrake. That should make installing programs easier since you don't have to chase around dependances

 

[magomago]

mplayer 🙂

tho i can't get the GUI working but i've figured out the keys...kinda

like pause is P
and the left and right keys fastforeward and zoom
and fullscren is F 🙂

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: drag
I like Xine personally.

Same here.

I just use mplayer for embedded quicktime, etc. in Firebird.

 

[Crusty]

How did you get mplayer to work for embedded quicktime in firebird. Mine doesnt like to work.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: MCrusty
How did you get mplayer to work for embedded quicktime in firebird. Mine doesnt like to work.

Mplayer plug-in, good luck getting it to work if you use mandrake. 😛