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Good Video Player for Linux

dulpit · 2009-07-16 00:35:39

Hey, so I'm just getting into Linux, using Mint Linux and I like it... I wanted to play some AVI files today, so i downloaded VLC and ran it, and while it worked it was slow & choppy in places... I viewed the exact same files in VLC through windows (i dual boot) and they worked perfectly... Is there a different program to…

16-07-2009 1:35am

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dulpit

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Hey, so I'm just getting into Linux, using Mint Linux and I like it... I wanted to play some AVI files today, so i downloaded VLC and ran it, and while it worked it was slow & choppy in places... I viewed the exact same files in VLC through windows (i dual boot) and they worked perfectly...

Is there a different program to use to watch videos that's as good as VLC is in Windows??

Cheers.

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#2 16-07-2009 2:26pm

Khannie

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gmplayer is probably what you're after.

edit: If vlc was crap in linux but not windows on the same file then you should probably check your video drivers too.

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#3 16-07-2009 5:57pm

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Khannie wrote: »

gmplayer is probably what you're after.

Indeed, I prefer it to VLC, mainly for the sheer amount of tweaking you can do with Mplayer on the command line, plus its tie in with MEncoder.

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#4 17-07-2009 1:39am

bman

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MPlayer is the only video player I ever use on Linux. VLC is probably the second best out there though imo.

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#5 17-07-2009 4:52pm

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gxine is a good video player if you want to try that.

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