mplayer vs. xine

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 02:40, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Brian C. Huffman <sheep at graze.net>:
> > I'd like to have a show of hands of who's for xine and who's for
> > mplayer.  Which one is the better choice for a complete multimedia
> > solution?  I've used both and have to say that I've had problems with
> > both.  
> 
> I'm a fan of xone myself, though the people who did the UI weren't thinking
> about people with 100dpi monitors and some of their fancy displays are
> nigh-unreadable for me.

totem with the xine backend makes for a nice front end to xine. I've
been using it for all my movie watching and it's a nice, simple and
obvious (for the most part) interface.

it's in the livna archives if anyone wants to try it out.
-sv