Mplayer.

[zotz]

Anyone know of a front-end for Mplayer that's worth installing? Something boring-looking that works properly would be nice.

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[figg.livejournal.com]

www.videolan.org/VLC is a nice alternative to mplayer.

It uses the same codecs [Especially ffmpeg] and will play just about anything mplayer does¹. And it has a passable gui.

And it's cross platform. OSX/Win32/Linux/Other

¹I'm assuming you're not wanting a really obscure codec/

[zotz]

OK, I'll try to remember to check that out. Cheers.

[poult.livejournal.com]

gmplayer the built in one isn't too bad. There may be a boring looking skin for it.
I've heard of KMplayer and Kplayer which are KDE frontends...
and mplay seems to be a curses based version.

[zotz]

gmplayer's OK mostly, but I'm tired of fiddling with the volume dial. It's a slightly broken idea when mouse control is needed. A slider would be more useful.