Ranter or evangelist?

[jackson byers]

Tim wrote

>There's gnome-mplayer (there's probably a KDE variant), and smplayer, to
>try out, at least.

>I have used GUI programs like XMMS or Audacious to play streams, but
>sometimes you need to tweak the preferences, to increase cache sizing,
>to avoid skips.  Totem is too much of a black box (not enough options to
>play with).

Before seeing above response,
I had just tried  smplayer and it seems to be working well
no skips

smplayer -playlist  xxxxxxxxx.pls

and it comes up with a  small  window that has volume slider and mute
just what i want..

I havent tried it yet to play audio dvd

Seems like I  can remove Totem

Jack