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Another post so soon after another. Well, that's what I have started to commit to. What has been evaluated so far? Not to much actually, but I have one thing to report. As I have found MPlayer a bit more functional than VLC I have started to use it more and more, but there is one drawback of MPlayer. It's that they focus primarily on the "server" part that actually does the decoding and viewing and not so much on the "client" that controls what the server does(pause, start, skip etc).

This could devolve into a rather ugly post and bad review of a media player, but there is one huge upside. As the focus is huge on the server side, there is also a very well documented API for controling the server and that creates the ability for a third party to build a GUI according to their standards and language(programming).

During these few weeks I have tried the default(blue round thing) interface with a second window for the video, the GNOME version of the interface and last but definitely not least the SMPlayer interface. All but the SMPlayer interface are substandard. They do work, but not to good. The SMPlayer is close to the look of the standard VLC with embedded video. It looks good and uses my prefered GUI library, QT and not GTK which I find problematic at best.

So If you are trying out MPlayer as your media player, I would suggest that you start with the SMPlayer interface which will give you a very good looking and capable media player