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Asked: 2010-12-08 09:20:33 +0800 CST

What is the best video software that can play more than one instance besides Gnome MPlayer?

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What is the best video software that can play more than one instance besides Gnome MPlayer?

I'm tired of using Gnome MPlayer that always creates a pop out dialog about “Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so” everytime I play my videos with it.

gnome video mplayer

4 Answers

  1. "The best" is subjective. I prefer VLC Media Player 

    sudo apt-get install vlc
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  2. Best Answer

    I really like SMplayer IMO it's has a better and more intuitive interface to mplayer than Gnome-mplayer.

    sudo apt-get install smplayer
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  3. SMPlayer, very popular and a great front for mplayer allows multiple instances:

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    To install SMPlayer:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smplayer smtube

    VLC has similar options:

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    Install VLC.

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  4. You can suppress the error messages by creating a little config file. Here's mine (sitting in ~/.mplayer/config):

    [default]
vo=vdpau,xv,
vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,

ao=pulse
really-quiet="1"
fs=1
xineramascreen=1
msglevel=all=0
showsubtitles=0

    Mine does extra things (like displaying it full-screen on the right-hand monitor in a TwinView setup, disabling subtitles by default and not spouting any error messages (the bit you want).

    You could simply have:

    [default]
really-quiet="1"
msglevel=all=0

    Long live mplayer.

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