On 10 March 2011 08:41, Michael Scherer <m...@zarb.org> wrote: > Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 08:55 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit : >> 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? > > I do think that no one mentioned 2 others importants factors : > - maintainability ( ie, something with a sane way of doing thing, that > exclude stuff based on libffmpeg ), that also mean a sane packaging > ( ie, being able to separate plugins is IMHO better , especially for a > patent minefield ). > > - security, again, no one took that in account ( given > http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf/bugs , I am again not very keen on relying > on xine or mplayer personally ) > > -- > Michael Scherer > >
I would vote for VLC, firstly because it plays pretty much everything, its qt based, and finally becuase it is platform independant, every OS seems to have VLC.