What is the best available media player on Linux Mint 9?

[Kira_Nightray]

Everything is said in the title, so we have by installing Mint 3 multimedia player such as:
-Gnome Player (Mplayer)
-Totem
-VLC

So which one is the best to you and more suited to mint 9...

[eiver]

I tried many of them and ultimately I find SMPlayer (its an mplayer front-end) to be the best. The main reason is nice keyboard shortcuts by default and ability to increase video cache to very large sizes - a necessary thing to view a HD video directly from a network share without lagging during high-bitrate parts. It plays practically everything. And in a very rare case when it cannot play a given format, I use VLC.

[farnaby]

Well, the best suited is always the one, that plays the media file properly. Unfortunately, I haven't found one for all yet. mplayer works very well on HD .mkv files because of its vdpau support, but fails on some dvd's. Totem however could play these dvd's, but fails on the HD videos.

For music, I like banshee.

[Midnighter]

I tend to lean towards gnome-mplayer. But it all depends on personal choice, and what you want from it.

[mikhou]

For video, VLC, because it'll play anything. I'd really rather not have several players, but just one that'll do it all.

For music, I like Banshee because it's an easy-to-use interface.

mikhou

[vrkalak]

My choices are >>

Video: SMPlayer (plays everything I've ever tried with absolutely no problems)
Audio: Rhythmbox (supports everything, easy to config)

Both are compatible with my mp3 player.

[Joylove]

Video Files: SMPlayer (has the best customization options)
Video Streams: VLC
Audio: Rythmbox or Exaile

[alpha1]

Totem is total crap, I wonder why it is still included?
(Seems more like how Windows OS includes the windows media player).

(G)Mplayer and VLC are good - on Windows also!
SMplayer looks like Mplayer with different front-end - wonder how much difference it will make to the actual playing?

[Midnighter]

Totem is total crap, I wonder why it is still included?
(Seems more like how Windows OS includes the windows media player).

(G)Mplayer and VLC are good - on Windows also!
SMplayer looks like Mplayer with different front-end - wonder how much difference it will make to the actual playing?

Crap? Not in my experience. Do you have anything to qualify that claim with?

[alpha1]

Totem is total crap, I wonder why it is still included?
(Seems more like how Windows OS includes the windows media player).

(G)Mplayer and VLC are good - on Windows also!
SMplayer looks like Mplayer with different front-end - wonder how much difference it will make to the actual playing?

Crap? Not in my experience. Do you have anything to qualify that claim with?

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=50135
Second post.

If it cannot play VCD/DVD its not doing its job.
Mplayer and VLC are, on the other hand.

[Lantesh]

SMPlayer when I'm sitting at my desk using my PC Monitor.
XBMC when I'm back on the couch with the display output piped to my TV.

[Midnighter]

Totem is total crap, I wonder why it is still included?
(Seems more like how Windows OS includes the windows media player).

(G)Mplayer and VLC are good - on Windows also!
SMplayer looks like Mplayer with different front-end - wonder how much difference it will make to the actual playing?

Crap? Not in my experience. Do you have anything to qualify that claim with?

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=50135
Second post.

If it cannot play VCD/DVD its not doing its job.
Mplayer and VLC are, on the other hand.

I get what you'ree saying, it's not doing it's job (well, not as good as it should anyhow), but in all fairness, that one failure hardly makes it "crap". Just saying.

[alpha1]

But I don't think totem plays a wide variety of media formats ...

[ddalley]

VLC can be good, but there are a lot of times I see it pixelizing different videos, making it a bit unreliable, in the end. It plays some files OK and chokes on others.

I don't knowingly use VLC for streaming.

At the moment, I am using XBMC in a HTPC environment and am satisfied with it, so far.

[berryrock]

VLC Media Player is the best option for it. I am using it on Linux MInt and I have no faced any problem yet. It works very well. Also, it provides nice features and functions so you can use easily. Its nice for that.

[tdockery97]

VLC Media Player is the best option for it. I am using it on Linux MInt and I have no faced any problem yet. It works very well. Also, it provides nice features and functions so you can use easily. Its nice for that.

+1

[unni]

As a novice user who had migrated from Windows to Linux platform, I feel VLC is good option with it's support for most of the formats, simplicity, regular updates and features.

[solvalavan12]

VLC Media Player is a long-time open-source favorite. The default interface is still a stripped down player that belies VLC's functionality and features. It is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats like mp3,mpeg1,mpeg2 and etc. It's simple and straightforward, fast loading and play smoothly with no or not not noticeable loss of quality.

[Midnighter]

VLC and Mplayer (and it's various front-ends) are both excellent, supporting virtually all known formats.

[linuxviolin]

I always liked GXine well, even Slackware has it...