On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:13:42PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > mplayer cannot understand DVD menus. That is the only problem mplayer > has IMHO.
ogle is about the only unix app out there which works reasonably well with dvd menus. mplayer has a lot of minor issues. Lots of option combinations make it dump core. Some extra functionality is broken. Its command-line options are often hard to figure out. It's mostly single-threaded, which is annoying with recent processors. Some of its codecs don't synch properly on fast forward... but yeah, apart from all these problems it works fine. For jakemsr: as far as video quality goes, mplayer can have it fairly good, probably as good as vlc or better. But you have to play with post-filtering options to get there.
