mplayer vs. xine

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 03:09, Geoff Teale wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:42, seth vidal wrote:
> > totem with the xine backend makes for a nice front end to xine. I've
> > been using it for all my movie watching and it's a nice, simple and
> > obvious (for the most part) interface.
> > 
> > it's in the livna archives if anyone wants to try it out.
> > -sv
> 
> Totem is great.  One way it scores over straight Xine is that it
> maintains the Gtk2 look of the default Gnome desktop which, whilst not
> as pretty as a Xine or Mplayer skin, looks a whole lot more

It's funny, I've never liked the default xine or mplayer skins b/c I can
never figure out what the damn buttons do.

Totem's buttons are obvious or labeled.

So from an ease-of-use standpoint sometimes consistent is much nicer
than pretty.

-sv