On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:13:42PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 13:44:00 Nov 14, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > IMO vlc has higher quality playback of most media, can do things > > mplayer can't, has a nicer ui, etc, etc ... > > > > UI? > > Well I am a command line person.
command line media player. sorry, but that doesn't make sense, IMO. I mean, if you're playing a video, you have a video window .. it's graphical by nature. > mplayer cannot understand DVD menus. That is the only problem mplayer > has IMHO. that's pretty basic functionality of a media player, no? > I honestly tried vlc. But it was too GUI oriented, $ vlc --help | wc -l VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus 169 $ mplayer --help | wc -l 39 $ > all sorts of ugly > output like KDE and other C++ junk out there... yes, in -current the vlc port can be built with aRTs and Esound support, and it does use wxWidgets for the GUI. however, it does have a curses UI: vlc -I curses. > Now I again it is my opinion. > > Can you tell me what vlc can do that mplayer can't? rtp stream server. sound server output (in -current). playing mpeg movies in firefox. > Have you tried to "study" mplayer's man pages, the html documentation > and stuff? yes. it's a mess. how can e.g, mpg321 know that file.m3u is a playlist, but mplayer needs to have -playlist specified? and if -playlist is not specified, it complains about missing win32-codecs??? > It takes a long time to learn but once learnt you start feeling that it > is the best thing since sliced bread. actually, the more I use it, the less I like it. > This article should give an idea. > > http://linuxjournal.com/9787 I see a statements like: It is a mature application that has no parallel. MEncoder, it companion video encoder program, does a much better job than FFMPEG in transcoding video, although it is a bit difficult to use and learn. that have no basis. how and why MEncoder "does a much better job than FFMPEG in transcoding video"? there is no comparison whatsoever between ffmpeg transcoding and mplayer transcoding. further, mplayer/ mencoder are heavy users of libavcodec/libavformat (FFMpeg libraries). that's what all those 'lavc*' options are. $ ffmpeg -i input.avi -target ntsc-dvd dvd.mpg takes any AVI input and outputs a DVD compliant NTSC mpeg2 PS. what is the mplayer equivilent? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org