On 02/04/05 04:20 PM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:08:02 +0100 > Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:44:04 -0600, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:32:06 +0100 > > > Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > So who do you like the most and why ? > > > > > > I like mplayer for cli stuff and xine for gui. Mainly because the > > > cli stuff I do is downloading and converting streams from wma/rm to > > > wav/ogg/mp3, etc. and I use the gui for watching videos and such. > > > > > > Xine won't do the stream conversion that mplayer can, from what I > > > have seen. And I prefer the layout of the controls on Xine better > > > than Mplayer. > > > > Is there not a mplayer fork for a better gui ? > > Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. Mplayer already has a nice gui,
That is if you can get that gui to work. It's always crashed for me,
but I use it from the command line a lot.
> I just prefer the layout of xine better. But you don't have to take
> my word for it - install both of them and see how you like them.
I think I'll check out xine.
Lou
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