applications

[Michael Havens]

thanks guys.... I'l look into them.

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> From: Michael Havens <bmike1 at 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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