On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Matt Graham
<danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
From: Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
> 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.
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