Best media player?

[Lionel]

Doug Holland wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:26 pm, Tulga wrote:
> 
>>Hi all
>>
>>I am using Kubuntu 5.10 with KDE 3.5 beta 2. I want play mpg, avi files.
>>Which player best?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Tulga.G
> 
> 
> I'd recommend both xine and mplayer.  Kaffeine's a good KDE front end to the 
> xine engine, I use it a lot.  You'll probably want to get the w32 codecs as 
> well, though I don't know where to download them these days since the 
> (K)ubuntu people can't legally distribute them...

I agree with mplayer, it's by far the best.