best player on ubuntu...

[yerlo]

hi dudes tell me the best player for movies for ubuntu 7.04:)

[4play]

I quite like kaffeine though vlc is also pretty good.

[Artemis]

my personal favorite is Xine & like VLC there are some very cool skins available for Xine, I have VLC looking like WMP11 as a laugh at the moment

[onbit]

you have all those and xmms, amarok, and a few others.

[HKM]

you have all those and xmms, amarok, and a few others.

As he/she stated couldt say better. Now I myself use xmms for music and use amarok or xine, koffine for movies ect.

[yerlo]

ok thancks a lot ;)

[bataya]

try smplayer.

[rexton85]

i really love mplayer ;-) http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

[tmp23]

mplayer ftw! ;) for me, scrolling with the mouse wheel through a movie is really a killer feature. cant live without it anymore. i even use mplayer on windows.

[TheDude]

vlc is great! also mplayer is good(I use it for hdtv movies)

[enviouz]

imo its more a matter of preference as thers so many decent ones. i use xine for video and xmms for music though.

[tuning]

for mp3 - xmms
for video - mplayer. ;)

[ptang]

I quite like having a few set-up, for different types of file... e.g. VLC is great for DVDs and longer stuff, Totem's quick and easy for short playlists, and MPlayer is my backup for when nothing else is working... Then again I quite fancy doing a clean install...

[fstrulz]

Videos: Mplayer
Music: Exaile

[chillincool]

videos - mplayer
music - amarok

[res0r9lm]

movies: Mplayer
music: Rhythmbox(GTK2) or Amarok(qt)

[Scavenger]

For video VLC, and music Audacious.

[sexydingo]

Video: mplayer
Music: amarok

[Kebert]

mplayer/vlc for video
banshee for music

[ptang]

Also worth keeping an eye on for audio is Songbird. I have started using the dev build as my main music player on my laptop. Runs fine for the most part, haven't come across any major bugs yet, although it does need improvement with regards to features/functionality, but I remain confident of that coming with time.

[Chester87]

I used the standard Movie Player for a bit and than VLC for linux. But eventually when u wanna play those pesky files from china with the *.rmvb extension. There is no better player than Mplayer. Plays just about everything

[division]

Definitely:

Amarok for music. It has an excellent collection browser/search, and I love that it's queue oriented, meaning there is a clear list of upcoming songs that you can easily re-arrange and edit. I hate players like itunes where you have to create a playlist every time you want to pick songs that come next. It should be a simply primary feature. Amarok also has cool other things built in, like last.fm song announcing and a context page that has song lyrics, artist info, etc. The interface is pretty beautiful and a perfect balance of simple and feature-full.

VLC for video. Plays almost everything I've ever thrown at it, and it's small and clean.
For weird formats, mplayer might help, but it's not as fun.

[xopher]

I actually use totem (with the xine backend) for viewing most my movies. If it can't play the subtitles or something else doesn't work, I can always trust the good'old mplayer. VLC is nice, but sometimes .srt subtitles won't work as they should.. For music, be exotic and try out bmpx ;) It's a project with great potential, and well worth checking out. I just love the integrated last.fm feature.