2011/3/10 Oliver Burger <oliver....@googlemail.com> > There was already a discussion about that in the alpha2 iso thread but I > think > it's better to discuss this in a thread of its own. > > Most people "voted" for smplayer in the other thread, which would be fine > with > me. It's qt based (nothing against gtk, but using a gtk based application > as > default in kde is just weird. try to do it the other way arround and you'll > be > lynched by gnome fans), its backend mplayer is a powerfull player. > But: I'm having a strange thing about it on my Mageia box: I start it, I > open > an ogg file, I play it. I close smplayer, start it again and it won't play > the > same ogg file anymore. I close smplayer again rm ~/.config/smplayer start > it > again, it plays my file and so on. Anybody else having the same thing? Is > it a > bug or just pebcak? > > Others preffered dragon player, which is KDE's default. We could but I > don't > really like it, since it's a bit too simplistic in my eyes. > > I personally prefer kaffeine. It's working just fine for me, has many more > options then dragon player. But some of you told it's not stable enough (in > what way?) and some don't like it because it's not using phonon but libxine > directly. > > The next option would be totem which I hate (just a personal thing). And > it's > a gtk application which I consider weird as default in KDE. > > Then there is kmplayer, I haven't really used it till now, but it's working > and it's offering you playback of local files, optical media and tv (which > I > couldn't test due to not existing hardware. > > Next option would be xine-ui which definitely is looking a bit old > fashioned. > > Did I forget anything? And what do you think? > > Oliver >
VLC would be a nice solution if it had an oxygen theme -- Dimitrios Glentadakis