Media Players

[Richard]

David Fox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney
> <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I used VLC before switching to KMPlayer under Windows.  Its developed in
>> S. Korea, they have an English language  forum for the application so
>> perhaps you should go there and make a request for a Linux port.
>>     
>
> I'm curious. On capable hardware, how do you feel about the output of
> mplayer using -vo gl2 on highdef files such as *mkv? I have a couple
> of samples, and I think it looks pretty good, but just maybe it can
> look better. And you need a pretty capable box to play it (doing that
> on my old Athlon Tbird, the video was unwatchable, but it plays very
> smoothly on my new dualcore amd64.
>
>
>   
Well, its like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KMPlayer

I do run a quad processor setup, with a 8400 nvidia card,
and there is a such a hugh differences, between KMPlayer, and ANY thing,
that is on Linux, ... I did mention I spent all weekend trying to beat, 
what I was seeing,
and even with ALL codecs available (including) beta version, or program 
with Totem
VLC , mplayer, Xine, w/ all plugins.... as well, everything adjust to 
max tweaks..

Let me give a rating for Linux playing videos (of any type) a 6
and Windows KMPlayer (freeware) running on Vista a 10

Now the kicker, is there a quality setting for videos, on KMPlayer
once He takes a avg .mkv video or a mp4 video, and uses Video quality 3Ghz
now, its a different score of : Linux 4, Windows 12 (yeah in a 1-10) 
yikes!!!
--

Again, we both have the same systems... which it is NOT very hard to see
the differences, between media player software...

I thought I would install Kubuntu and give it a try, but after,
some heavy reading, pretty much the same as Ubuntu (media players)
was looking for a edge.

So, I might look at Ubuntu Studio, to see what (if any) they
do for video playback...again looking for a edge


>> KMPlayer can output to OpenGL so it should be perfect for running under
>> Compiz Fusion with GLX installed.
>>     
>
> And vlc (and I suspect others) will keep playing the video in the
> mini-window that comes up when you do the tab switcher. That is kinda
> cool.
>
>   

It maybe cool, however, the quality of vlc compare KMPlayer is night and 
day..

Regards-
Richard


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