Best media player?

Scott angrykeyboarder at angrykeyboarder.com
Mon Oct 31 06:38:37 UTC 2005


On 10/26/2005 09:39 PM, Lionel wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Why does every one love a butt-ugly (circa 1998) GTK1 app so much?

Go with Kaffeine. If that's not enough then get VLC.

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