Re: Looking for the best media player for me

Daniel Böhmer wrote:
Hello NG,

no, I don't want to start a discussion which media player is better than another or which one is the best at all. I just want to find out which player is suitable for me.

I need a program which is easy to handle and hasn't got a complicated interface (XMMS is a bit tiny).

This can be fixed with a extra big skin for XMMS, but I guess you don't want to spend a week on a such task.


It should be able to play as many formats as possible. I don't want to use 1000 players for all the formats. Best one program for all music and video formats. If this is not possible, then I'd like to have as less programs as possible and they should fit together in a system (I know the situation from windows that several programs are courting about being the default player for any format).

IMHO mplayer does play most formats, of course a bit depending on the options used while it was compiled. There are kmplayer that is a KDE frontend for mplayer and you have gmplayer which is a Gnome2 frontend for mplayer.


If there is "the one" program or some programs which work together correctly, this was really nice. It would be great if one of those programs would support playlists for music because I sometimes listen to on of my CDs on the computer. That's why MP3 mustn't be a problem.

Mplayer itself does support playlists, but not sure if the frontends have the option, I never use such as I get quite well around using the console command directly.


I hope you got an idea of what I wanna have and can give some advice to me which player to choose.

Other options are kaffeine, vlc, xine and a load others that I don't know the names of, you can make a check at freshmeat.net and see what projects are listed there.

If you want to make your computer to a media center (play movies, music, watch photos, play games, record video and so on), then you should take a look at FreeVo and MythTV, it's a question about taste which one to use, but they have quite the same features and both has a load of addons as weather service, news and so on.


//Aho
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