What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more "multimedia capable"?
My thought:
.- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it.
.- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-(
.- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files.
.- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short time. I don't know all of its possibilities.
I've used Xine for a long time, but I've started playing around with Totem, and I'm quite impressed.
Plusses: * Simple to use * Can play just about anything, including Quicktime * Nice visualisation for audio
Minuses
* Doesn't have the range of features that Mplayer has (there again, nothing short of video editing software like Cinerella does)
* I've had occasional sound problems, though that may be more to do with my sound setup than Totem
* Full-screen option for Quicktime comes out in the wrong resolution (and the Ctrl-Alt-Minus key trick won't work)
* Screenshots on DVDs come out with the wrong dimensions (problem with widescreen settings?)
* Doesn't have a pretty, skinnable GUI like Xine or XMMS (this is a personal thing - I hate GTK!)
OK, so there are more minuses than pluses, but the minuses all look fixable in the near future.
Sir Robin
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