Best DVD player?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 09 May 2006 13:20, Sean Hammond wrote:
> Setting up ubuntu (breezy) for a friend, I'm wondering what the
> best thing to install for DVD support is. My friend is a
> technophobe and is going to have to manage the machine herself,
> doing the upgrades etc., so I need to make it easy for her and not
> de-stabilise the system at all or doing anything that's going to
> require exrea work or knowledge down the line.

totem, xine, kaffeine et al are all very good and well, but they can 
be problematic - I can't get xine to stop jerking on my machine for 
example.

At this point nothing even remotely comes close to mplayer. It handles 
any format I throw at it, works on any just about platform with just 
about any hardware, and cpu utilization never goes above 50% of my 
machine even when playing a dvd with all bells and whistles turned 
on. BUT, there is that ginormous man page to contend with first.

Have you considered gmplayer?

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