* H.Merijn Brand <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> [2009-06-26 16:55]: > XMMS and beep-media-player are almost the same, except that bmp > came with more plug-ins.
Yeah, and I don't see the point of using something at the XMMS feature level. I used to have bmp around until I noticed that I never used it any more because I'd make a terminal window and launch mplayer instead -- less hassle, no GUI, and I don't care about the missing "features", it turns out. > mplayer? don't start. It spews so much verbosity I don't care > about that I just use smplayer for the command line, as it > nicely hides away what I don't want to see when watching a > movie. True, but it's just a bunch of crap in a terminal window or virtual console that I don't look at and that I close after use. > mplayer has (way too) many GUI's I don't use any, and I don't give a hoot that I can optionally make the thing more hateful. Mplayer is tolerable not because it's actually good, but by virtue of passively sucking in easily ignored ways -- unlike all the other players that actively shove their suckage in my face. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
