mplayer vs. xine
Steffan Jacobs
steffanjacobs at wanadoo.nl
Fri Jan 30 14:18:12 UTC 2004
Brian C. Huffman wrote:
>I'd like to have a show of hands of who's for xine and who's for
>mplayer. Which one is the better choice for a complete multimedia
>solution? I've used both and have to say that I've had problems with
>both.
>
>With xine I've been able to play most all formats with the exception of
>Windows media (although I know the codecs are out there). I've gotten
>the gxine frontend which includes a plugin for mozilla. Unfortunately
>I've had many many crashes of mozilla / xine when using the plugin.
>
>With mplayer (which I've just recently installed), I've had better
>stability (although it has crashed on inline movies), but I don't know
>the extent of the formats that it can play. Also I haven't seen a
>frontend to mplayer so far....I assume that one does exist.
>
>Thoughts? Experiences?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Brian
>
>
>
>
Hi,
Personally I would have to say that I don't prefer either of them. I
think xine is by far better for DVD's because of it's support for menu's
but mplayer seems to be more flexible for playing downloaded video's.
Also I like the mplayer plugin better than xine's and it's working like
a charm now. So if you ask me use xine for dvd's and mplayer for
video-file's (that's what I do anyway).
Bye,
Steffan.
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