My favorite though is the extensive scanning controls. Very usefull (although the controls aren't intuitive). You can do simple things like adjust the volume with 9 and 0 and you can do things like adjust the audio sync timing, the subtitle timing, the gamma, etc. I think you might need to download one of the command line binary installs to get the manpage, but once you've installed it, search for 'general controls' to find the keyboard controls. Okay, this is in response to a bunch of posts.įirst, regarding the lack of keyboard control in mplayer: One of the reasons I like mplayer is because of its extensive keyboard control. 3ivx is actually the fastest DivX decoder available, so it's the best solution for slower machines. How was that for a run-on sentence? - View image here: -ģivx will take over playback of the actual video, meaning that you'll get the fastest playback with the best post-filtering. It does this transparently, which is nice there's no need to change the type code of the AVI since 5.0.6. Installed DivX will install the DivX Validator, which is an AVI parser that will parse the pseudo-AVI's that you find around the internet, rather than QuickTime's built-in parser, which complies with the AVI spec and therefore does not play VBR audio in AVI back. I can play DivX AVI's perfectly with QuickTime Player, 3ivx and DivX 5.0.7. I also play back most of my WMV streams with MPlayer, only because it's slightly less crappy than Windows Media Player. I keep them around solely to play files that are so fucked up that QuickTime Player won't recognize them, like incorrectly joined MPEG streams and AVI's that have Intel Indeo Video. Both have nauseating interfaces, are slow and have shitty post-filtering. Having run it on a PIII without MMX or SSE, you notice a huge difference.Īs for DivX, I really can't download movies as I am on the end of a 56K modem :-(Īctually, I hate them both MPlayer and VLC. Regarding VLC, the problem isn't the application but the lack of optimisations.

I prefer Quicktime and yes, I admit, I am a default settings h*re and can't be bothered changing from it -) So, vlc or mplayer? Which do you use and why? Anyway, will DivX and 3ivX co-exist on a system? I see that 3ivx also plays DivX/MP4, so I wasn't sure about possible conflicts.Īnyway, I guess this thread kinda relates to the thread, except I'm interested in players. DivX/XviD/MP4/MP2/AVIs (clarity, speed, etc.)Īlso, I see a lot of talk about 3ivx. A lot of people around here talk about both of these media players, and I'd like to hear opinions about which one is better for:ġ. However, I'm curious about vlc and mplayer. I've got the DivX 5.05 codec installed, and I know that it works with QT. I've recently ripped some DVDs into DivX and WMV format (for comparison), and was wondering what my options are for viewing. I haven't done a lot in the way of multimedia on the Mac 'sides listening to my mp3's via iTunes.

Mplayer media player