Talk:Comparison of video player software/Archive 1

Mplayer feature
Under "features, continued", most no answers should be yes, unless it's the graphical user interface (gmplayer) and not mplayer itself that is being considered.

DRM proposal
Whether a media player supports DRM, or unprotected content, or both is an important question, and these charts are largely vacant of this information. I propose someone add one. It may also be useful if the nature of the DRM were somehow noted, perhaps in footnotes.

Audio device proposal
Audio devices are often limited to what media players they will sync with. It would really be useful to have a chart that shows the relationship between audio players (or families of audio players) and media players, in terms of synchronization. Though it could get ugly considering the numbers of audio devices in existence, so the charting would have to be clever to keep it concise.

'Optical disc support' became 'Optical media publication support'
I have changed the vague use of the term "support" in the header to "publication support". It's nonsense to talk about whether something "supports" something without clarifying what is meant by the usage of the term "support", at least when there is ambiguity. I'm assuming the original author intended to illustrate *burning* capabilities, since it's really the responsibility of the OS to [i]read[/i] DVD media, not the application. If the table trully reflects read support, someone should correct my changes.

Also, I know for certain that iTunes will burn audio to DVDs. So I have changed iTunes::DVD-Audio to a "yes". (maybe older versions of iTunes did not?)

Perhaps the chart would be more meaningful if the "yes or no" cells are replaced with "read or write". I'll leave that for someone else to decide.

LEGEND
PLEASE include a legend that states what the pink/green colors mean, otherwise new viewers (like me) get confused easily between the various shades of colors. Thanks! PS - thanks for your hard work in gathering/organizing this information

Ripping/Encoding format
HIII I'd like if online radio support was included. I'd like to see something added to show what format(s) each player is capable of ripping/encoding to, and whether it is able to automatically make a playlist when you rip.

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amaroK & JuK metadata support
If it's handled via TagLib, that means it's supported. (It's quite likely many of the other players use an external library as well, just don't say so). No would be like saying you can't walk because you use feet to do it. I've edited the article to reflect this. --Illissius

drm matrix
What media players have support for a some sorts of acceptable DRM technology? This is a crucial question when thinking about what applications & media file formats can be used to play commercial legal media. Preferably without breaking patent & licensing issues.

iTunes Video Playback?
iTunes is capable of video playback, but AFAIK it only plays trailers or music videos that are available through the iTunes Music Store.

I'll leave it to someone else to decide whether that is enough to qualify for a "YES" in the "Video Playback" box. AlistairMcMillan 14:20, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I would say no as I wasted the best part of an hour downloading ITUNES and installing it only to find out it would not play my Xvid MPEG 4 files as they were not available from there store. mit rekab--130.36.75.20 10:49, 29 December 2005 (UTC)


 * But if you had instead made them regular MPEG 4 files (.mp4) instead of baking on that Xvid wrapper, iTunes would have been able to play it fine. Same goes with Divx or AVI. iTunes can play the files, as long as they aren't wrapped. --Ctachme 18:31, 29 December 2005 (UTC)


 * IMO many iTunes and QuickTime entries can be merged as iTunes can play what QuickTime can play. See iTunes' article. --minghong 13:35, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * iTunes does have one restriction that QuickTime doesn't: it doesn't accept certain containers that QuickTime does. The big one is AVI, but a hack allows it to work. Since the hack involves creating a QuickTime movie wrapper for the other container and having iTunes play that (though the data is still in the other file), I'm going to remove AVI from iTunes' list of supported containers. Also, it seems iTunes will only parse ASF files with the WMA extension, and Flip4Mac should now provide decoding. Can anyone confirm? --Dicey 03:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Rhythmbox
Why was Rhythmbox removed? It is certainly not minor.
 * If you feel Rhythmbox isn't minor, then add it back in with an edit summary of "see talk page".


 * Well, FWIW, I'd never heard of it until I saw it here...
 * James F. (talk)


 * Rhythmbox is based on xine or gstreamer. These should be listed here instead.
 * DonDiego


 * The libraries a program uses are not the same as the program. (E.g., gstreamer isn't even a media player.  First question on the gstreamer FAQ: "Is GStreamer a media player?  No.")
 * iTunes uses the Quicktime libraries to play music (AFAICT), but that's hardly a good reason to remove iTunes from the list.
 * Correct. Amarok also uses Xine and Gstreamer to play music, but yet amarok is allowed on the list.  Rhythmbox is not only common, it is the de facto media player on Gnome, which is one of two largest desktop environments on unix.  Far from minor.

Outbound streaming
This refers to the ability to broadcast a music stream, effectively creating your own Internet Radio station, correct? If so, shouldn't it be noted if this is possible through official plug-ins? A prime example would be Winamp, which has the ability to broadcast a SHOUTCast server using plug-ins and server software from Nullsoft. --Pidgeot 23:34, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Isn't iTunes stream able too? Though it requires the airtunes AP, it could be considered stream able. PPGMD

Why is this a feature of media player? Media player is a client, not a server... I suggest to drop this column since it is confusing, e.g. see the footnote of QuickTime: "Avalible with Quicktime Streaming Server". We should be comparing QuickTime Player, not QuickTime server... --minghong 08:54, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. This shouldn't be a feature used to compare the media "players". --Kamasutra 02:39, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

The article claims that MPlayer supports outbound stream - as far as I can tell, this plain isn't true


 * It does, somehow. Look at TOOLS/netstream/ in the source distribution.  It's a rather obscure feature, but it exists.

Nag ware
I think we should consider a line item, on what suites are nagware or other forms of built in annoyances like spyware. For example both QT, and RP have some sort of nags to get you to pay for the full version, while GPL, and WMP don't have anything of the sort. PPGMD
 * That's a standard feature in shareware, not worth noting. Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠ 00:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * how about call it 'user friendly-ness' and then take into account how quicktime and realplayer and wmp are pains to install and uninstall. of course judging how friendly a player is will cause a lot of fighting, so nevermind Compn 16:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

iTunes is skinnable
though it involves replacing one of its resource files (in the .app folder) link
 * thats a hack, not really a feature of the media player. --Eean 23:28, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Split table - Audio and Video players separate
The table seems to be somewhat artificially combining two categories of programs:
 * the manage-your-music, plays-only-music applications like iTunes, Musicmatch, and Winamp
 * movie players like Quicktime, MPlayer, and VLC

There seems to be little overlap between them, except that you can play an audio file in a movie player (though it's usually pretty clumsy).

Imagine a row called "playlists". I think that such a row would be almost the opposite of the "video playback" row. That's the big distinguishing factor: movie players play movies but don't offer good music playback features (like playlists), and "jukebox" programs offer neat features like playlists but don't do video playback.

These really feel like two separate categories of programs. (4.16.250.8 forgot to sign at 2004-12-07T03:30)


 * I couldn't agree more. Comparing an audio jukebox-type media player to a primarily video media player isn't useful, and I would argue that the table is far too large.  I would recommend first creating two new comparison articles: Comparison of audio players and Comparison of video players, and then breaking out applications which clearly fit into one or the other from here into there.  Any "media player" that can't play any video format should go into the audio players comparison, for starters. - McCart42 (talk) 02:37, 28 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah... I agree too, it should be split. --Ctachme 03:27, 28 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Disagree Music videos exist. --Hhielscher 09:30, 28 July 2005 (UTC)


 * What does that have to do with anything? Soundtracks exist to... but that doesn't mean there isn't a difference between video players and audio players.--Ctachme 16:14, 28 July 2005 (UTC)


 * That means that a distinction between audio and video players does not make sense, since modern audio players can be used to play video (e.g. music video) — and video players can be used to play audio only.--Hhielscher 16:29, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Hhielscher: Foobar2000, JuK, MediaMonkey, Musicmatch Jukebox, musikCube, Quickplayer, Rhythmbox, Sonique, XMMS, XMPlay, and Zinf all cannot play music videos. amaroK, currently probably one of the most popular music players for Linux, also cannot play video well.  However, all of these players excel at music management functions by ID3 tag, whereas many of the video players completely neglect ID3 tag recognition.  There is a definite separation between players designed for audio and those designed for video.  Of course, there may exist players that do both well, and those can stay in this article; however, players that have no inclinations towards being both shouldn't be listed in this comparison. - McCart42 (talk) 02:17:11, 2005-07-29 (UTC)
 * I am not sure about the other players above, but for XMMS there are many plugins that play video (e.g. smpeg-xmms, XMMPlayer). But the main question is: how would you distinguish what programms are video and what programms are audio players? What is the criteria? Playlist, Equalizer, Meta Data Support?--Hhielscher 14:26, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * For video players it's difficult to distinguish between a pure video player and a multimedia player. However, for audio players, it's simple: if the player cannot play video in the DEFAULT configuration, that is, the version that is downloaded sans plugins, then I would say it is an audio player and not a "media player", and certainly not a video player.  There is certainly room for disagreement in terms of individual players being audio players or media players, but I don't believe there is any doubt that popular audio-only players exist.  It may be that they are becoming rarer as many players add video functionality, such as iTunes. - McCart42 (talk) 18:37:03, 2005-07-29 (UTC)

I agree it should be split, maybe if a player plays audio and video it could go in both tables?

False AAC
It's not false, very few users see m4p files, instead they see AAC files. One of the most common edits to this table is to change m4p to aac, I simply made a note, that they are commonly seen to the user as aac. PPGMD


 * I'm confused. Where do users see AAC files?  All the music I've purchased from the ITMS end with ".m4p.  What is it now, 2,000,000+ songs that have been sold on the ITMS?  Unless it's just Steve, Avie and Jonathan that have been buying all those songs, then I'm not sure where you are getting the "very few users see m4p files" bit from. AlistairMcMillan 16:08, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree... all of the protected AAC files I get are .m4p, I haven't seen a single one that has been .aac, I don't know where you get that information --Ctachme 04:42, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Winamp at first couldn't handle MP4 containers and played bare AAC files in a hackish way.

Mac OS 9 column?
I notice that there is no Mac OS 9 column listed, and there are Mac OS 9 media players.

I already added a Win16 column anyway, so why not have a Mac OS 9 column? --KelisFan2K5 17:52, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Neither a Mac OS 9 or Win16 column seem really useful to me. Or we'll end with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Hurd, etc. and the tables will be unreadable. Sam Hocevar 20:12, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Mac OS prior to Mac OS X is a completely different operating system. Win16 is a trivial difference. Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠ 00:10, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

BSD/Unix split
Why is BSD and Unix split? BSD, I guess they mean FreeBSD, NetBSD. "Unix" - Solaris and SGI? Seems kind of meaningless.

Supported formats
I think it would be helpful if there were a table which listed all the popular audio and video formats and whether or not each of the players supported them (or if aditional plugins were neccesary to play that format). --Blackcats 09:16, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * I've added those tables. Please help filling/correcting them. --minghong 13:15, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Hey - thanks for adding all that. I think a lot of people will find that helpful.  I'll try and help with filling in if I see any gaps where I can find the answer...  --Blackcats 22:36, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Maybe someone cares more than me to add a Musepack column? It's important enough.

Mixing frontends and backends?
This Comparison is mixing frontends and backends. Although some applications have their own backend, it is more and more common at least on the unix desktop, that applications (e.g. amarok, juk, totem) support multiple backends (e.g. GStreamer, Xine, MPlayer, ARts) and thus the features depend as much on the backend choosen as on the application itself.--Hhielscher 18:31, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah. That's why I didn't fill in the media format support for those players... So I don't know how to deal with them. --minghong 08:09, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Drop Ogle?
Since it is a DVD-only player, I suggest to drop the entire product for this comparison. I also suggest not to add WinDVD and PowerDVD as they play primary VCD/DCD. --minghong 09:01, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Seconded. The whole thing is getting far too messy. Sam Hocevar 09:39, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Video format versus file format verus containter versus codec
What's the difference between these four things? I don't think the tables make it clear what's what why. --Ctachme 19:26, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * File format? Where did you see that? It's such a general term. Video format is just video codec. Container can contain any audio/video channel. --minghong 09:23, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

BetaPlayer
I commented Betaplayer as the contributor didn't fill in the rest of the tables. Also, is this player notable? P.S. I also suggest to drop Nero Media Player. --minghong 09:31, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I was hoping to add a link to BetaPlayer, a windows CE media player. When I added it earlier, I put it in the same format as the other media players (no link to the site). It was commented out; the editor had never heard of it.

I added a link to the web site, but it was removed as "Spam".

How should I go about adding BetaPlayer? It's a Media Player, why can't it go in a list of Media Players?


 * If you are going to add it, add its entries in every table. And try to fill in every cells. --minghong

Gapless playback
What about gapless playback? foobar2000 has it natively with gapless formats.
 * I added an entry for gapless playback. Offhand I only knew about gapless support in a handful of players.  Someone else will have to finish the remaining entries.

Winamp format support?
The article indicates that Winamp doesn't support a number of formats, such as APE and AAC. Those formats are supported via easily-accessable plugins, however--I'm listening to an AAC file via Winamp right now. Is there any reason the table doesn't indicate Winamp's support via plugins for those formats? Starwiz


 * Maybe you could add these indications with a note explaining the need for plugins? GhePeU 11:23, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I will; I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a good reason they were missing. Starwiz 22:02, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Drop Nero Media Player?
What is it anyway? No page here on wikipedia... I only found something about Nero Digital which are some codec. What are other's opinions on this? --Harteex 01:16, 31 May 2005 (GMT+1)
 * I agree that it should be dropped --Ctachme 03:57, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

A few iTunes/Quicktime notes...
Although iTunes for Windows can't play WMA files, it can convert unprotected WMA files into MP3 or AAC files. Quicktime is up to version 7.0.1. No version of Quicktime can play WMA or WMV files.
 * The chart indicates that QT can play DVD-Audio formatted disks. I don't believe it can.  Can someone confirm DVD-A support?

Hardware Player Support
Should we consider showing what/how each program supports hardware audio players? For example, does it support MTP, Sureplay, DRM, USB Drives, etc... --Anubis1975 09:53, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

MPlayer
For what OS does mplayer support RealMedia?


 * It does not depend on OS but on CPU architecture since binary codecs are used to decode RealVideo 3 and 4 as well as some of the Real audio codecs. Those binary codecs are supported on Intel and PowerPC.
 * mplayer can play realmedia on windows, linux and mac (and a few more os's as long as they are x86 intel or powerpc based) Compn 18:08, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Memory
Seems like it might be useful to show comparisons of memory usage, as well. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 06:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thats tremendously subjective depending on what you consider the proper configuration of the player. Some example listed can vary in memory useage by more then an order of magnitude depending on individual use. I think it should be left out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.196.193.152 (talk • contribs)


 * I agree with T. Rhymeless and would also ask for a memory usage comparsion chart. Such a chart may be subjective related to the individually configured computer system/ audio player settings, which makes it difficult, but not impossible. Memory usage is of importance. Ask yourself, who would want a slow player? Or who would want an audio player to slow down the system and eat away memory? LIllIi 23:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree it's a good idea, as long as each player is tested with default configuration, and it is included in the table that it is only the default configuration, this information would be fair and of use.

iTunes and OGG?
I thought iTunes 6 can play OGG Vorbis files... can we get a confirmation?
 * You need to have the OGG QuickTime Codec installed, then any QuickTime application can play OGG. Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠ 00:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree with this. This is by far what determines if I use a piece of software or not, be it media player or some other software.  I would do this myself but I'm unsure about how to go about doing this.  A guess is to install then run each player and look up its mem usage on the task manager, but this might be unique to each computer. Any suggestions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Agodina (talk • contribs) 8:28, 17 February 2006

jetAudio and MPEG-4 video format
I believe that jetAudio depends on the availability of a DirectShow filter for MPEG-4 video playback, and one is included as part of the jetAudio installation. Wikipedia XP 18:07, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Missing Media Player
Someone add DivX to the list with it's appropriate stats. 71.250.51.234 03:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Winamp unicode support
Winamp currently doesn't support unicode characters in ID3v2 tags. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.7.166.164 (talk • contribs)

Vandalism warnings
The warnings are exaggerated. This page is vandalized relatively little and does not justify all of the warnings. In fact, I'd say the warnings are partially giving into vandals on more than one level. Also, after I made the template replacements it went from 74KB to 55 KB and now it's already up to 63KB. Those reasons aside, I don't believe the actual request from the warnings is entirely reasonable for such an article. Much of this information can't be found from a verifiable "source" other than oneself testing the players' capabilities. How would one go about providing such a "source" to the Wikipedia editors?

Everything in Wikipedia does not have to be sourced/referenced, but it does have to be verifiable. Consider the type of article this is and the fact that software is not always well documented and decide whether the verifiability rules for Wikipedia should apply. You would find a lot more ? s if everything had to be verified in such a way as described in their policy. If you don't believe someone then the answer is not to blantantly and ignorantly revert an edit, but to verify it for yourself. Anyone too lazy to do such a thing, in my opinion, shouldn't concern themselves with it. All but one of the players has a free version, so there is little excuse. --Kamasutra 18:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Fair points. I just thought it might be a good idea. Feel free to revert them though if you think they're not suitable. I've not reverted anything, but I did notice some reversions for unsourced edits so I thought that might have been the policy for this page ;) -- Run!  19:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Music/media locator protocol support
It would be nice to have a table comparing which players support which music location protocols - DAAP (itunes), and the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) MediaServer protocol are the only two that i know off, but there may be others.

82.68.161.101 01:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
This article needs cleanup. It lacks sufficient encyclopedic context to explain its importance, and does not provide references for the information in the tables (though ostensibly some documentation somewhere does contain this information). The Features table contains speculation on future improvements to the software. The information is not checked for accuracy; for example, iTunes should be listed as supporting at least as many proprietary formats as QuickTime, since iTunes uses QuickTime for playback &mdash; other inaccuracies may exist, this one only serves to point out that the article has not been properly fact-checked. Protocol and format support are incomplete, and the range of codecs compared seems rather arbitrary considering the sheer number of codecs available, as does the choice of subtitling formats. &mdash;donhalcon╤ 20:59, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Disagree on the context, but initial paragraph needs to be cleaned up. I see no speculation in the features table--only caveats (such as "available with a plugin").  I also don't immediately see which formats it is claimed are supported by QuickTime & not iTunes (perhaps I'm blind, since I missed both this and the previous issue).  Feel free to complete protocal and format support.  Also, feel free to add more format columns (though, each format should hopefully be notable enough for an article). --Karnesky 21:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The speculation is in the footnotes; the differences between iTunes and QuickTime are in the proprietary formats. I don't believe that protocol and format support could ever be reasonably completed at a tolerable level of quality, which is why I'm not working on it myself. &mdash;donhalcon╤ 21:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Can you please point to WHICH footnote? Notes 1-9 don't seem to have any crystal ball speculations.  I thinkt the "proprietary format" column should be removed, with preference for the individual table of formats (below).  Notability is an easily-judged criteria for protocol/format support: is there a WP article on the format or is it reasonable that one might be written. --Karnesky 22:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that the "proprietary format" column isn't very useful; I think the "existence of Wikipedia article" standard for formats is quite reasonable, but I'm not sure that all such formats are included here, especially considering that support for many formats is provided by external codecs. Perhaps it would be better to list codecs supported natively and whether a given player's capabilities can be expanded through external codecs.  I don't really have the time/interest combination to make that happen, though.
 * The footnotes don't appear to actually contain speculation, but the sentence "Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality." appears repeatedly in the article. &mdash;donhalcon╤ 22:25, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Removed out of date external link
I removed the external link which was both very limited and several years out of date, to the point of being unquestionably useless. (It was comparison of Quicktime 4 to RealPlayer 8 to WMP 7, and it ignored everything else everything else.)

difference of support between OS and distributions
VLC has some differences between the OS xine can be compiled with and without w32codecs(avaliable only for x86) =>we must add a lot of notes explaining the differences betweeen the OS for the particular format where it difers

Winamp supporting VobSub
The article states that Winamp is uncompatible with VobSub. This is incorrect. I use VobSub with Winamp; it works for me.

video capture?
how about comparisons of media players that support playing from capture devices such as webcams and tv-cards? 60.51.123.251 07:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Players for Mac os 9
There should be noted if there are any players that work with mac os 9. helohe (talk)  15:13, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

New ref syntax
Hi, I rehauled the article to use the syntax. You can see how I did it at User:Kjoonlee/comp.

I'd be happy if people could check the current version of the article to spot errors, if any. Thank you. --Kjoonlee 11:58, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn't spot any errors per say, but the ref for plugin available at time of installation seems to be used for the general "plugin available" in numerous places. I suggest changing this ref to be more generic. Winamp suffers from this isue extensibly since most functionality in these tables can be aquired just from searching winamp.com's plugin repository. Obviously stating that you can do this at install time is somewhat subjective. Otherwise a clean improvement to making edits. CraigF 11:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Video/Audio Processing features
i'm curious about features on linux in regards to scaling. i know MPC can do Bicubic resizing (as well as like BiLinear and Fast BiCubic/Linear) thru DirectX on newer video cards. also FFDShow can do Lanczos *-tap (1-9 or more) as well. that's something i'm looking for in a linux media player, too... Plonk420 21:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

library support?
I know winamp and musicmatch jukebox have a library function built in. Does Foobar2000? Zinf? Quintessential? Etc.?

Latest Release Date
I think that the main table should include the latest release date, so people will know if the player is still being developed/maintained.

-- Yes, I second this suggestion. Excellent effort in doing this article, but a date indicating when this comparisson was updated would be helpful. I will ask on GOM Player's board about ID3 tags, I don't think they are not supported.

What about tracker music support?
I think there should be list of supported tracker music.. --84.19.184.156 16:43, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Suggestion to do so. 85.25.148.242 22:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Rhythmbox, Amarok, Totem WMA support
Rhythmbox and Totem both support wma, etc. with win32codecs and the pitfdll gstreamer plugin, just like everything else.

Quod Libet
And what about the new music player, Quod Libet? oKtosiTe

Hi-res DVD-A support?
Any source for QuickTime's & RealPlayer's ability to play DVD-A discs (not regular DVD with AC3/DTS/LPCM audio but those high resolution audio DVDs)? I thought that WinDVD, if I recall right, was only player for PC able to play those (not with the newest version as the DRM was hacked). --84.248.57.66 14:02, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Missing Kaffiene
This article is missing Kaffeine. 165.230.46.146 22:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Kaffeine is a frontend for xine. It shares its capabilities. CE. 192.35.241.134 14:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Problem in the features section
On Comparison_of_media_players, there's a column which has two different labels on the top and bottom of the table. "Gapless Audio Decoding" on top and "Gapless MP3/AAC Decoding" on the bottom. I think that's leading to some errors on the column too. I'll try to find when this happened, but even if I fix it, please make an effort to correct the information on that column according to the label which is agreed on for this column. Rbarreira 13:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Multithreading support
Do any of these media players have support for multithreading? If so, shouldn't this comparison note that? -Aknorals 13:38, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Replay Gain
Replay Gain should be added to the table for things to support. 165.230.46.153 17:45, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

FLIC? WTF?
Why on earth would flc be listed in the list of video codecs? Obviously whoever added it felt no need to bother testing it against other players, and it's far more rare than most mplayer supported formats (such as Indeo and DV). Bizarre. Add H.264/AVC as a column and drop that, I'd say.

Also there are two entirely incompatible types of flash video, one based on Sorenson Video and the other on VP6. Should this be made clearer in the table? 69.110.75.165 10:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * how about a reoganization of the video formats section?
 * merge mpeg1 and mpeg2 and boxes 'mpeg1 only' 'mpeg2 only' 'both' 'none'.
 * rename 'mpeg4' to 'mpeg4 asp (divx)'
 * add 'mpeg4 avc (h264)'.
 * rename 'flash' to 'flash1 (sorenson)/flash8 (vp6)' and have boxes 'both' 'none' 'flash1' 'flash8 (vp6)'.
 * remove players which have all 'NO' format support. they are just taking up space.
 * remove flic.
 * -Compn 16:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

HD DVD and Blue-Ray in vlc
User 24.168.158.188 added HD DVD and Blue-Ray capabilities for vlc on 24 November 2006. I can't believe that and tried to google for some information: No indication that it's possible to play them on vlc but a few claims that it won't work. So I propose a "No" here. CE 192.35.241.134 14:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * i agree, vlc does not have this feature yet. Compn 16:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * removed hddvd and blueray from vlc. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html will tell you when vlc gets support for it.
 * afaict, vlc supports evo files, and vc1 codec. which are the container and video codec used in hd-dvd, no idea about the audio codec. no clue about bluray either. vlc needs the decrypting and demuxing of the disc to fully support hd-dvd now. Compn 20:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Winamp plays HDCDs?
According to the charts in this article, Winamp can playback HDCDs. However, according to this Wiki article on HDCD, the only software-based application that can playback HDCDs in their 20-bit format is Windows Media Player. Can anyone confirm if Winamp can indeed play HDCDs? Not One Of Us 21:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Midi playback in XMPlay using soundfonts
According to http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html, under the midi plugin, soundfont 2 files can be used. Can we include midi playback capabilities on the comparison page? 219.95.201.49 03:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

SQL Representation
Before I sit down and put all the info from the tables into an SQL database, has anyone already done it? --207.59.156.99 15:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Songbird
Songbird is listed as a video player, but should be listed as an audio player I think. Am I mistaken?
 * It is primary a audio player but it also plays video files. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.167.171.252 (talk) 20:47, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

Cost by Currency
It seems to me to be more descriptive for an international Wikipedia readership the Cost column should have $ (dollar) signs preceeded with the currency it is quoting. Ie if US dollars is should read USD$20. At the moment one can only assume that the $ (dollar) signs indicate the most popular dollar currency which is the US dollar. Mrbeardy 05:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Compressed files format
Which of theese all files are capable of run songs packed in compressed files, like rar and zip, I know then foobar2000 do it without problem, is there another one then do it so.

Citation for subtitle support in xine
User:87.167.128.181 removed the citation about subtitle support in xine with the edit summary "Please don't make unnecessary footnotes, there are already to many". It's not unnecessary, because it lists which subtitle formats are supported by xine. Sources must be cited for material that is challenged, and when I added the citation, I was challenging the claim that there is no support for SubStation Alpha subtitles in xine. &mdash; A.M. 11:55, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

== Irfanview is a video and picture editor and player that needs to be added to this list

/* It is written by a guy at University of Austria I think. I found out about it on a Physics website and have been using it for a long time, I think it is just as good as VLC or Media player. I especially like that it can handle playing video at any speed while you use the mouse to slide the tracking bar. I don't think any other player can do that. /* --Lasagnajohn 01:05, 15 May 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lasagnajohn (talk • contribs) 01:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC).

Reverse play proposal
Reverse playback of MPEG files are difficult but not impossible. And I see this functionality has some fun. Would someone put up something about this?

Fan Decheng, 2007-05-31

WMP plays flash?
News to me.

Where is the zune software
i don't see any mention of the zune software on this article. Geekyperson (talk) 19:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)