mplayer vs. xine

[Rick Stevens]

Antti Aspinen wrote:
> there are gui for MPlayer(it comes with sources), have you tried 
> ./configure --enable-gui option when compling mplayer, then start it 
> command gmplayer, and by the way you need to download skin and font pack 
> to it from www.mplayerhq.hu <http://www.mplayerhq.hu> :)
> and from there you can also have soooouseful information about mplayer, 
> you didn't read dokumentation, didn't you?, shame! :D [don't take that 
> so seriously, I didn't read them either when I first time tried MPlayer :) ]
> 
> Then one thing, Xine is britty good but like you said it is unstable. :(
> I like more xine than mplayer, xine is better DVD player, even thought 
> it is hard to get difrent regions to play, (mplayer handles that britty 
> easy), gxine is waste of time, only thing were it is really good when 
> using gnome and you need to listen radio or watch internet tv (I watch 
> bbc news, for example)
> 
> And best things in xine is that it can change audio/subtitle track on 
> air. In MPlayer it will restart video from beginning. and in MPlayer you 
> can't change multipletrack file(aka .ogm) subtitles, only audio track 
> change is supported.
> 
> I give xine 8/10 and MPlayer 6/10, MPlayer is light weight media player 
> when Xine is very hard one.

You might also look at Ogle for playing DVDs.
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