Hey guies, what are the best media players for Linux according to your experience? I've been using MPLAYER and XMMS for quite some time. Also tried my hands with XINE. Is there anything better than these, the ultimate dream of a music lover? Santanu Sen National Institute of Technology Durgapur India

I use amaroK for music and mplayer for video. amaroK has neat features like downloading album covers and lyrics and tracking listening habits. It keeps an internal database and sorts by ID3 tag info rather than filesystem hierarchy. mplayer supports nearly every format imaginable and has keyboard shortcuts for just about anything you'd want to adjust while the video plays.

I use mplayer most of the time. Sometimes (g)xine if I want DVD menu support. Ogle is quite good for DVDs too. My mate swears by vlc. Alternatives to xmms I've used are beep-media-player and mpg123/mpg321 which is text based. I also sometimes use workbone which is a text based audio CD player. A friend of mine recommended juk (which comes with KDE 3.4) which apparently is great if you have loads of tracks and big playlists. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ http://xinehq.de/ http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ http://beep-media-player.org/site/BMPx_Homepage http://www.mpg123.de/ http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/ http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/workbone.html http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html

Please help me! When I try to play file *.dat, My console appear segment: <MPlayer dev-CVS-051220-04:08-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron D Prescott; Pentium D/XE Smithfield; Xeon Nocona,Irwindale (Family: 15, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. 89 audio & 203 video codecs Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be readable by the user.) Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing /mnt/win_e/VCD/harrypotter_clip_withme300 [1].dat. Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) XMMS: found plugin: libcdaudio.so (CD Audio Player 1.2.10) XMMS: found plugin: libfc.so (Future Composer Player 0.5.4) XMMS: found plugin: libmikmod.so (MikMod Player 1.2.10) XMMS: found plugin: libtonegen.so (Tone Generator 1.2.10) XMMS: found plugin: libwav.so (Wave Player 1.2.10) XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libwav.so XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libtonegen.so XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmikmod.so XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libfc.so XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libcdaudio.so> I copied file *.so into /usr/lib/xmms/Input/ but also. I use Mandrake 10.1 Please help me ! Thanks !