Am Freitag 22 September 2006 13:21 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > I've heard these claims (ÿÿplayer X should be more than good enough, what > > do you need mplayer for these days?ÿÿ) for at least the last five years > > -- it's a difficult claim to refute, since people have rather different > > viewing habits, different platforms and different needs. For _my_ part, > > I've still not seen any player that works remotely as reliably over a > > wide range over file formats and various brokenness as mplayer does. > > And, BTW, do we really need Emacs if we have vi?
What is vi? An emacs mode? ;) But you are right. Except those frontends (totem, kaffeine) that use various backends (xine, gstreamer), there are stand-alone solutions like vlc and mplayer (and all those share many, many libs). Every of those concepts, be it xine, gstreamer, vlc or mplayer, offer a slightly different way to use it. And all of them have pros and cons. I could give examples why e.g. I do not like vlc at all but are a happy user of kaffeine/xine and mplayer. But to what gain? HS
