Favorite video player? 4

Posted by Hisham Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:05:00 GMT

So I was watching Lost (720p) yesterday on my PC, and that thing would drop frames like there's no tomorrow. I started off trying it with Totem, then VLC, and then I got so upset with the quality of the playback, I installed and tried Mplayer. Wow... just wow... I used to use Mplayer on my laptop a year ago (on the FreeBSD install) but I haven't tried it out since. Its amazing how well the playback quality was with almost no dropped frames at all. Tells you a thing or two about how different well written software is.
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    dmal 2 days later:
    Mplayer is my favorite (when on a *nix box) otherwise Windows Media Player tickles my bunions (what a nasty image i just threw on the table :)
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    compubomb 8 days later:
    I run mplayer win32 build on windows too. So i run it both on linux & win32 systems. It is lite, it runs video much quicker than any other video player; it has keyboard shortcuts for fast forwarding; it is portable.
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    Brian 9 days later:
    Mplayer rocks! :)
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    dmal (again) 22 days later:
    I now i've got mplayer on my vista box as well :)
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