Before I spend hours screwing around with Mplayer and Xine -- some advice please ?

[Dave Stevens]

On Monday 14 April 2008 09:22:52 am William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I am running F8 and have downloaded and installed both Xine and Mplayer.
> Xine( and totem I suppose) keeps taking over as default.
>
> With previous Fedora versions I just uninstalled Xine to get Mplayer
> working, however this time I thought I might try to get Xine going.  The
> front end gui looks attractive and Firefox about: seems to be saying all
> the codecs are there.
>
> However, the first problem is there seems to be no Xine help
> documentation.  I am willing to do the exploratory work and climb the
> learning curve.  But before I begin and fruitlessly waste a lot of time,
> if anyone has some tips, hints or experience using one or the other of
> Xine or Mplayer, I would appreciate a short post.
>
> I know there is lots of info and previous posts on this subject, but
> before I even go there, is it worth it?  Or should I just eliminate Xine
> and use Mplayer?
>
> --
> Regards Bill

I originally wanted to use mplayer for the wide range of codecs implemented 
and available but it was a pita. When kplayer came along as a front end I 
became quite happy with the combo. works for me.

Dave

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