On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 01:06, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon 2002-11-18 at 08:42:57 +0100, Yves Duret wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:53:24PM +0000, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 12:41, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > > Now that i had some success with other transfer requests, what about the > > > > ultimate multimedia player under linux, aka mplayer ? > > > > > > > > It is not the most politically correct package, for sure, but it is legaly > > > > clean (otherwise it won't even be in contrib), and its presence in main would > > > > definitevely boost mdk on desktop. > > > > > > Xine does just about everything mplayer does... > > > > time to be less "monocentric" on multimedia apps. > > and time to drop out thnigs like xanim (is it still existing ?). > > The xine standard ui is not easy to understand, peek your > > windows-mediaplayer-addict mother in front of it, and see.. > > No need to take some mother... I yesterday tried xine for the first > time due to this discussion. > > I consider myself quite computer literate, but I needed several > minutes with the GUI until I figured out how to playback an .avi file. > > Half of the icons do not trigger any association with me. I had to try > out all but the most obvious (play, stop, pause, ...). > > What irritated me most that I had to use the playlist, which I closed > again at once, the first time I encountered it (because I wanted to > load one movie, not specify a list of files). A bit later I gave up > and specified a one-item list, because I found no other way. I did not > bother to look longer if there is a better way, it is well possible > that there is one - but if there is, for me it was not intuitive to > find. I neither tried the CLI afterwards. > > The options window with all its tabs is also frustating. There are a > lot of options, which have a non-obvious effect (and that though I am > familiar with the mplayer options). If I have to look up the docu, > what is the benefit of having that in the GUI? > > I do know, that there are always options that are useful once you know > them (e.g. DAO, TAO, etc. with cd writers), but as I said, I am > familiar with mplayer options, so I think I know the basic vocabulary. > > > Enough for that rant. I did not intended it to become one. I only now > realized, how frustating the experience with xine was. And I thought > mplayer was bad when it struck me down on first sight with the pure > number of options it has. At least "mplayer movie.avi" simply > worked. ;-) (I know, I know, probably that also works with xine).
actually xine has a feature that mplayer lacks... xine is available as a library ( libxine ), so there are some players which are based on xine... for gnome ther's totem, for kde there is a kde on ( try xine.sourceforge.net for a list of them )... mostly when i want to use xine ( i don't use it much, but still ) i use totem... the only problem is that there's is no way to set xine's properties in totem ( at least i haven't found it :( bye, gabor > > Regards, > > Benjamin. -- gpg key at www.keyserver.net
