is there a good alternative to totem?

[Michael R. Head]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:40 +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
> I too like vlc a lot, but it doesn't seem to be able to handel
> external subtitle files (.srt). Neither does gxine. Both mplayer and
> xine /do/, on the other hand. However, for some reason, on my laptop,
> mplayer won't scale video larger than the native size (not under gnome
> at least; kde yes), 

That seems bizarre. Are you running mplayer with the "-vo xv" option?

> so I usually end up watching divxs with xine,
> despite its hokey interface, and qt and wmp media with vlc.
> 
> --
>   Colin Brace
>   Amsterdam
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