I use mplayer, if you do too, what is the best front-end?
Carlos Zúñiga
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For music I use mpd and either mpc (command line) or gmpc (gui) to manipulate it.
For video I use mplayer as well.
What media player do you recommend/use and why?
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particleswarm
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For video, VLC. For audio, probably anything using gstreamer, such as totem or rhythmbox.
Adel Moin
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MPlayer is really the best…
I like it more than other players.
Morten Piil
I use vlc to play video and all kinds of other stuff – because it plays everything.
Then I use Rhythmbox to play my music collection.
vrkalak
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For Video … I go with VLC or SMPlayer. SMPlayer has run everything I’ve thrown at it.
For Audio … go with Audacious2. Again, everything ‘just works’
Yann Deflesselle
for audio I use mpd with ncmpcpp which runs in a terminal and is really easy to use
for video I use command line mplayer (no gmplayer or such…)
Hamid Rostami
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I also use mplayer and write a config file for use LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) with it and control mplayer with my TV remote control :)
ajnasz
I use mplayer for video and mpd for audio with ncmpcpp frontend.
Ana
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For music, in the past, I was using amarok, but it became too bloated after the port to KDE 4 and since KDE 4.2 or so, I am quite happy with juk. Minirok is also worth checking out.
For video, always VLC.
Dmitry Semyonov
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Audio:
moc – ncurses based console audio player
Video:
vlc – multicast (TV), HD-video with menu
mplayer – everything else
PaulCarroty
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Best frontend is smplayer. For different desktop environment is gmplayer, kmplayer. I recommend smplayer, vlc(play all existing video) and xine (add debian-multimedia.org repository)
PaulCarroty
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For musik – deadbeef, get in http://hadret.rootnode.net/
Tiago Geada
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I am amazed I haven’t seen anyone cheering out loud for amarok
nottyl
VLC for video, plays all formats I’ve tried out of the box, for audio, Rhymthbox. It has all the features I need and has proven bugless, unlike, say Banshee.
Dario Minnucci
On KDE is use kmplayer: /usr/bin/kmplayer
PaulCarroty
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amarok is too hard (for slow machine)
Remi
- VLC for video, as it plays many files
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Clementine (amarok 1.4 port) for audio
- XBMC for media center
Fabián Rodríguez
- SMPlayer as it brings mplayer but has a nice GUI
– Audacious for audio
Marc DM
I had to jump in.
MPD plus Sonata and GMPC for library music
AlsaPlayer for the one-off tracks
SoundJuicer to rip CDs to FLAC (yeah I still do that)
Gnome-Mplayer for most movies, totem for the others.
I also use pulse-audio by default
I don’t even have VLC installed. I no like the interface
Anonymous
gnome-media-player for video it can use vlc, xine or gsteamer engines you can choose or let it autoselect one.
Amarok for music
tornow
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I use xmms2, which is cli. I use it easy, just to play a folder. Then the next one… and so on.
When it comes to gui i like: audacious, alsaplayer-gtk and aqualung (i think the last one offers most of what most people want from an audio-player).
As in testing i install the gecko-mediaplayer anyway i sometimes use gnome-mplayer to play my music.
smplayer does the work of playing audio files too. I agree.
If you are really low on resources you might use ogg123, mp123{321}, flac123 (not in the repos, afaik)
As you might have noticed i am not much of a gourmet.
rich scadding
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For a standard gui, all bells n whistles, i recommend Rhythmbox. It updates my music collection, has a search, and album art. It also has plugins for wikipedia artist info, song lyrics, and best of all Last.Fm ineraction so I can listen to my music from any computer.
Goacid
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I used VLC … because it is plateform independant, so when working on mac/windows/linux it is really usefull.
Adam Trickett
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It depends…
For music I use to use XMMS because it was simple, however I found preferred the way Amarok works. It scans all your music and then you drag what you want onto today’s play list and hit play. I found the way it organises music easier to work with than the XMMS style interface. I tried others but found that they crashed, so I’ve stuck with Amarok.
Since the upgrade to KDE4 in squeeze I’ve stayed with Amarok. I know people complain that KDE4 version is bloated but if you turn off most things, the interface is okay and it uses no more RAM/CPU than other KDE4 desktop apps.
For video I’ve used all sorts of tools. I’ve found that xine is pretty good at the back-end and I’ve used it with various front-ends. Mplayer is another good back-end and I’ve used that with various front-ends too. I tried VLC several times and found it buggy and unstable but the 1.1.3 version in Squeeze has very quickly become my default video player.
Like many people once I’m happy with something I find it a pain to change, so even though there may be better options they have to be a lot better for me to bother changing.
Harri Haataja
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I use mplayer with no frontends precisely because it appears to be the only player that starts from commandline, does what it’s supposed to in one single window with good keyboard control and then goes away. And it plays just about everything. It is the only one that really works.
Other than that it is, of course, a truly revolting design.