KDE Movie Player

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Tuesday, November 4. 2003

Movie Players and Linux. This is a looong story

First, I used xine, which was (and still is) a quite nice player. It's slim, works out of the box and did everything I begged for.

My interest turned to MPlayer, since I heard it's even less resource-hungry and I wanted to setup a low-Mhz PC for DivX playback. Wow, I was amazed. It offered plenty of configuration options, supported zillions of file formats and ran really speedy.

So I switched to MPlayer on my desktop, too. But hell, there must be a GUI, right? I didn't like Gmplayer so much, since it was space-hungry and the interface just wasn't intuitive (imho). KMPlayer wasn't exactly what I was looking for either, but it was slick at least, so I switched again.

Today I found my program: KPlayer. It's just the right compromise of a slim design and all the important functions at your fingertips.

KDE3? MPlayer? Get it!

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you should also try vlc and kvlc, it's really neat and i think it's even not as cpu-hungry as mplayer is...

#1 mystix on 2003-11-05 23:15 (Reply)

kmplayer !?

The funktionality is bad.

Try xine, compile it by yourself with all the needed things, like dvd behavior . . .

#2 mluetz (Homepage) on 2003-11-07 16:15 (Reply)

as mentioned kmplayer is not my favourite, too. that's the reason why i was talking about kplayer (no "m" here).

i was used to start xine some time ago, but it's just to resource-hungry (compared to others) and lethargic.
besides that i won't switch from mplayer since i use it for encoding and all that stuff, too. other than that: xine is definitely one nice program, working like a charme. for tv-output e.g. it's still better that mplayer.

#3 muesli on 2003-11-07 16:24 (Reply)

Hey, just wanted to let you know that KPlayer 0.4 has been out there since early November, so please update the link, or better still just link to the home page, kplayer.sourceforge.net.

#4 kiriuja on 2003-12-11 19:18 (Reply)

oh, don't worry, the link redirects you to kplayer.sf.net

and of course i dont use 0.3 or 0.4, but cvs

greets,
muesli

#5 muesli (Homepage) on 2003-12-11 19:26 (Reply)

MUSS MAN DENN ALLES SELBER MACHEN HIER?
HERR MUESLI DER ZWEITE LINK GEHT DIREKT ZUM DOWNLOAD DER ALTEN VERSION, SIE SCHLAMPE.

#6 mystix (Homepage) on 2003-12-12 13:09 (Reply)

One of the links still points to the 0.3.1 tarball, it's where it says "KDE3? MPlayer? Get it!". People should not be downloading 0.3.1 anymore.

#7 kiriuja on 2003-12-22 20:32 (Reply)

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