Video under Linux - mess and frustration

2006-03-24 Thread Žáček Kryštof
My few cents... Playing video under Linux is a frustrating experience. There is a bunch of players available - mplayer, Kaffeine, KPlayer, KMPlayer, Xine, Totem, Kaboodle, Noatun ... Each of them has its own problems: some support subtitles, some crash on some files, some freeze on seeking, so

Re: Video under Linux - mess and frustration

2006-03-24 Thread Anders E. Andersen
Žáček Kryštof skrev: My few cents... Playing video under Linux is a frustrating experience. There is a bunch of players available - mplayer, Kaffeine, KPlayer, KMPlayer, Xine, Totem, Kaboodle, Noatun ... One thing is that one size does in this case not fit all. Kaffeine (with xine backen

Re: Kaffeine Reloaded

2006-03-24 Thread Zack Cerza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fathi BOUDRA wrote: > Le Jeudi 23 Mars 2006 21:46, Riku Voipio a �crit�: >> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:47:08AM +0100, Anders E. Andersen wrote: >>> Well, the kaffeine team is gearing up for a 0.8 release soon, haven't >>> tested it myself yet, but I am

Re: Video under Linux - mess and frustration [OT]

2006-03-24 Thread Theo Schmidt
Žáček Kryštof schrieb: ... Playing video under Linux is a frustrating experience. There is a bunch of players available - mplayer, Kaffeine, KPlayer, KMPlayer, Xine, Totem, Kaboodle, Noatun ... ... My suggestion is: Let us create ONE fully featured media player with ONE multimedia backend/frame