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Xine, mplayer, divx, xvid, etc these things were a lot more temporary than I anticipated, but it does make sense when you take into account the competitive adva

by muyuu 4y ago

Xine, mplayer, divx, xvid, etc these things were a lot more temporary than I anticipated, but it does make sense when you take into account the competitive advantage of newer codecs, hardware acceleration, etc. And of course the death of the CD-R and the DVD in the mainstream.

M_bara 4y ago
Brings back memories… along with skinning XMMS. Good times
- deleted 4y ago
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AlecSchueler 4y ago
I still use MPlayer every day. I thought it had similar traction with Linux users as vlc.
- t-3 4y ago
  It's been superseded by mpv.
  - anthk 4y ago
    You can have both. Mplayer2 it's lighter on older devices.
- blensor 4y ago
  mplayer user here as well. Every time I start a video from the commandline I use mplayer.
iotku 4y ago
As far as I know mpv is descended from mplayer and still plays a pretty big part in the media player landscape these days.
- mananaysiempre 4y ago
  And Celluloid (ex GNOME MPV) is a pretty snazzy GNOME wrapper for it.
goldenpreppy8 4y ago
Did any of you guys use Totem, Kaffeine? Man I just looked this up, XINE was integrated into these media players. Man i used those two alot back in the day. I was in college, so that means must of been like in 2001 or something...
- anthk 4y ago
  Kaffeine for easy TV channel seeking.
- doubled112 4y ago
  What a flashback! I don't miss the days of bouncing between media backends hoping one would play a media file better than another.
Nux 4y ago
I use mplayer almost every day, still. One of the constants in my life. :)
TEP_KimIlSung 4y ago
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