Re: Replacement for Media Player Classic?

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:50:45 +0100, Jef Driesen wrote this:

> I'm slowly migrating from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu 5.10). And for most
> part everything is going very smooth, except for playing media files. On
> windows I have always used the very powerful Media Player Classic
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/).
>
> What mediaplayer should I try? This are my most important requirements: *
> Clean and functional GUI (no fancy skins). * Can play all DVDs (and
> supports all features like menus, navigation...). * Can play all file
> formats (MPEG4, WMV, MPG just to name a few). * Supports subtitles (in
> separate files like *.srt). * Easily to customize settings (like audio
> volume, repeating,...). * Can reuse existing windows when launching
> another mediafile from another program (eg file manager, webbrowser).
>
> And optionally
> * Simple playlist
> * Customizable keys
>
> Any suggestions?

I'm in the Mplayer camp and except for some "wmv formats" I think Mplayer
is superior to Media Player in actual playback (dvd, mk4, mpg, ogg, mp3)
and recording/encoding but not gui. Mplayer can play from the Linux
command line, ie, no X gui. Don't remember the Unbuntu flavors but you'll
need the Mplayer gui, fonts and all-codecs packages.

Kaffeine is my second favorite with a really nice gui interface but
I haven't used it's stream recording or encoding features.

For mp3 playback, I finally got Rhythmbox to work as it has a good
playlist feature, Xmms and Beep my second choices.

Been running Xmms and Mplayer for years on RH/FC on the SuSE box been
running Kaffeine, Rhythmbox and Beep.



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