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yep dunno why many folks in this forum like mplayer i'd say vlc is lighter than mplayer or is my perception?
thx anyway dude...
 
I like the uncluttered (i.e. complete lack of) interface in mplayer! It also supports hardware acceleration on my nvidia card which is nice.
 
Vlc always depends on QT. Mplayer only depends on GTK if you build it with a GUI.
Without the GUI it's still able to play video on X though, you just don't get a fancy player interface.
 
gxine recently played several media files
which other programs errored out on.
...
one can AFAIK deselect qt in vlc.
...
Two to keep in mind (not sure if they meet
the criteria... of lightweight).
 
d_mon said:
yep dunno why many folks in this forum like mplayer i'd say vlc is lighter than mplayer or is my perception?
thx anyway dude...
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I don't know whether mplayer is lighter than VLC or not, but it's definitely more efficient. I can start up 10 or more instances of mplayer (I don't use the GUI) and every video will play smoothly, whereas VLC will start choking with as little as 2 or 3 instances. Though it might be because of the settings (VLC is using defaults, mplayer tuned to my liking).
 
Ya and if you have mplayer you have mencoder.

That covers the bases. Play what you want, make what you want. Capture what you want. Encode it to what you want.
Lots of the rippers-encoders use mencoder as their back end anyway.
 
I can't believe no one has mentioned it =)

use -vo caca

need lighter? use aalib without x running in your console.

When mplayer has issue I use xine. both mplayer and vlc come with encoders and transcoders which have both worked really well for ripping and converting 9 to 5.
 
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