Stephane SOPPERA wrote:
Hmm, not really that great :-(Thirdly, mplayer has a great OSD ;-) (ok this one is not a very objective argument ;-)
- unlike Xine, I cannot recode subtitles on the fly (I am talking about charsets). Thus, if I have subtitles in WIN1250 encoding, and want to display them in ISO-8859-2 (Linux), no go. Xine - no problem. Also, try to change font encoding for subtitles - crash :-(
- gmplayer does not respect GNOME panels and *ALWAYS* starts in bottom right corner behind my gnome panel. Annoying.
But to be fair, here we go:
- neither can play this movie http://www.trisestry.cz/Video/Tri_sestry_Pijanovka.mpg. Both core dumps, still old good xanim plays this fine ;-)
- neither allows me to specify subtitles for DivX movie (those pesky *.sub files). mplayer does only autodetection, no GUI, but will not allow me to recode. xine only allows me to specify subtitles via command line, no GUI.
- xine preferences dialog is really something horrible :-(
- the fancy GUI is also not that great, rather confusing, in both, although I belive there is a skin for gmplayer that is reasonably simple and plain. I hope apps like totem will be able to provide a non-fancy interface for me, but none of the apps are there yet as well (I tried sinek, totem, vlc-gnome).
All in all, both xine and mplayer are still not there yet. Both did not arrive to 1.0 version yet, though.
So until then, no perfect video player for Linux, at least for my needs. Until then, flamewars like this are mostly pointless from my point of view.
Michal
