On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 09:27 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
On 12/11/2015 09:10 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 08:40 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
> > On 12/11/2015 05:28 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 17:13 -0800, Jack Craig wrote:
> > > > may i ask what 'claim to fame' smplayer has?
> > > >
> > > > eg, if i have vlc working fine, what does smplayer
> > > > additionally
> > > > offer?
> > > >
> > > > i miss mplayer so i am interested to see, after moving to a
> > > > current
> > > > fedora,
> > > > what are the remaining players standing,...
> > > mpv seems pretty good (it's based on mplayer so may in some
> > > sense
> > > be a
> > > replacement for smplayer).
> > >
> > > poc
> > Hmmm.
> > I thought smplayer is the gui front end for mplayer and mpv.
> > mpv does not seem to have a gui front end.
> Smplayer is *a* GUI front-end. Mpv is independent (I don't even
> have
> smplayer installed).
>
> poc
smplayer allows the user to choose mplayer or mpv for playing the
media.
Now I see what you mean. Unlike mplayer, mpv does have in-app GUI
controls for playback so I call it a GUI, but indeed it doesn't have a
full set (e.g. for loading files).
poc