[TriLUG] The "best" media player replacement

crimsun at fungus.sh.nu crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
Tue Jan 20 21:11:48 EST 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:38:33PM -0500, Frye, Matthew wrote:
> Anyone have any opinions on what could be the "best" Windows media player
> replacement in Linux?  I'm helping a friend switch and the comment was made
> that XMMS is ok, if you like Winamp, but are there any really good
> alternatives.  Any suggestions?

For music, I flip between XMMS and Rhythmbox. For videos, I use mplayer.

Quite a few people seem to like VideoLAN and Xine.

HTH.

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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