On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 21:58, Michal Bukovjan wrote: > - 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.
mplayer -subcp cp1250 > - neither allows me to specify subtitles for DivX movie (those pesky > *.sub files). mplayer does only autodetection, mplayer -sub matrix.eng.sub > 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. i'm not talking about whether xine or mplayer is better ( i think xine is a lot easier to use , but mplayer offers more for the advanced user ), i'm only saying that mplayer has as much right to be in cooker as xine has.... people should be able to choose.. the same way as they choose between kde/gnome. bye, gabor -- gpg key at www.keyserver.net
