mplayer vs. xine

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 03:09, Geoff Teale wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:42, seth vidal wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > Totem is great.  One way it scores over straight Xine is that it
> > maintains the Gtk2 look of the default Gnome desktop which, whilst not
> > as pretty as a Xine or Mplayer skin, looks a whole lot more
> 
> It's funny, I've never liked the default xine or mplayer skins b/c I can
> never figure out what the damn buttons do.

Heh, glad to know I'm not alone feeling that way :) 

> 
> Totem's buttons are obvious or labeled.
> 
> So from an ease-of-use standpoint sometimes consistent is much nicer
> than pretty.

Actually I don't even find the likes of xmms and xine UI's (well skins) 
pretty by any means, just messy and sticking out like a sore thumb from 
the rest of the applications.

	- Panu -