xine vs mplayer

Tue Aug 24 22:12:10 PDT 2004

On 08/24/2004 08:04 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> How do xine and mplayer compare - do they have the same features? I've used
> nothing but mplayer, but it has had (or has) it's share of bugs. I still find
> the occasional url that won't play.
> 

They have similar feature sets, but not exactly the same.  mplayer can 
handle far more movie formats, xine is a lot more user friendly, 
especially from a configurability standpoint.  My wife prefers xine, i 
prefer mplayer.

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