well i wouldn't say one had really any better performance on my machine running on a nvidia card.
ym has varied. the goods thing is, both are free (beer), so it costs nothing to see which works best for you! On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:55:28 +1300 Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Nick Rout wrote: > > this is a flame war in the making, essentially xine versus mplayer (as > > it seems totem is a wrapper for xine) > > > > i find mplayer gives better quality, plays more codecs and generally > > "just goes". it will play weird video files that my media player in > > windows barfs at. I can play 6 or more video files windowed on my > > desktop at the same time. (if i want to) > > > > OTOH xine has better handling of dvd menus > > Yes, a flame war is certainly possible when discussing preferencial > movie player, however I will comment based on hardware specifics. > > For me, mplayer is far more stable (especially since I installed > Mandrake 9.2), but xine plays with vastly better video quality and > menu handling (if it can run without segfaulting!). > > On the quality issue, the reason that mplayer looks rough on my > hardware is that the mplayer devs have excluded hooks in their > video codecs to use hardware accelerated calls on nvidia cards, > whereas the xine devs have used these hardware accelerated hooks > into nvidia cards...the result is that scaled 1600x1200 res DVD > playback on my GeForceFX 5600 looks breathtaking with xine, but > has rough colour banding and lots of grain with mplayer. > > If you have an nVidia card and xine can run reliably on your system > I'd opt for that, since mplayer may not look as good on that brand > of gfx card. I also cannot use many menus in many of my DVD collection > with mplayer. If xine however is not cooperative, or you have an ATI or > other graphics card mplayer might be your best shot... > > -- > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
