Audio player

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at corsac.net
Thu Feb 2 19:43:35 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 14:22 -0500, Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Once Xfmedia's plugin interface stabilizes I'll be very happy with it
> > >
> >
> > how does the plugin interface affect users?
> >
> > also do you know how it compares to gxine? the latter's dependencies are gtk
> > and lirc
> > not much else and seems to have some more UI configurations than xfmedia.
> >
> Gxine pros:
> Browser plugin
> More access to core Xine configs
> 
> Xfmedia pros:
> Cleaner, easier to use UI (in my opinion)
> Small nicities, like minimizing to systray, and tag editing support with Taglib
> 

I think the two differs in their intention. Gxine is a video player
which can (due to libxine) play music. Xfmedia is a music player which
can (due to libxine) play videos.

I don't know well gxine so I can't tell, but imho it depends on what you
want to provide. (music with video or video with music ?)
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez
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