best/favorite/easiest to use DVD player..

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, October 24, 2005 7:26 PM -0400 "Amadeus W. M." 
<amadeus84 at cablespeed.com> wrote:

> Yes, I forgot to mention, mplayer does not play menus (forget about xine),
> but that's a feature that command line fanatics (such as the mplayer
> developers, or myself) like. Go directly to the movie. If I remember
> correctly oggle did play the menus, and kaffeine (which I forgot to
> mention in my previous post) does that too. And so does vlc.

Ok, thanks for the feedback. In this case I was watching the disk that had 
the last few episodes plus all the bonus material, and so I needed some way 
to select which item I wanted to watch. There was no single "movie", so 
mplayer/xine jumped into the short intro video, which was pretty useless.

Knowing that they're oriented at command line users (I qualify) I now know 
to check the docs to look for some way to select which component to play on 
the command line, instead of trying to launch from the Gnome menu and 
expecting an application menu to provide that. It's somewhat misleading to 
see the fancy "skin" on those apps that makes it look like a physical DVD 
player and find that it lacks a way to choose which item to play. That's 
not a complaint, just a gotcha to warn new users about when recommending a 
player to avoid frustration.

(BTW, the bonus material for Firefly is pretty good stuff.)