thanks guys.... I'l look into them. On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Michael Havens > > the default media player is Banshee which makes things s-l--o---w > > down. Not as bad a the download manager did but still... I have > > no experience with media players so I need to open this to discussion. > > Which do you guys and gals prefer and, if you can say, why do you > > prefer it? I'm looking for something that is not very resource > > intensive as this will be on a machine that is around ten years old. > > Music: audacious . It's essentially a clone of old-school WinAMP, it can > use > the same skin files, and it really whips the llama's ass. Its predecessor > XMMS ran fine on a P150 with 48M, so it should run just fine on a machine > from > 2002. > > Movies: Depends. mplayer or xine. xine has better DVD-navigation, while > mplayer can play almost any video format. I use xine more often, because > I've > often wanted to play DVDs I owned/rented on a Linux box. Video decoding is > more CPU-intensive than audio decoding, though, so you'll probably want > something like an PII-400 with 128M to get reasonable results for MPEG-2. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: