What are the best multimedia programs?

[jsmidt]

I want to know which multimedia programs are the best. I have heard xmms for audio and either xine or vlc for video. Is this correct or are others better? Will any be released soon I should look for? Thanks

[Orunitia]

All about preference. I use Rhythmbox for music and xine for videos.

[23meg]

Instead of XMMS you may want to look at its GTK2 equivalent, Beep Media Player, and instead of xine you might prefer totem-xine which integrates xine as a backend to Totem. VLC and mplayer are good for video as well.

[Quartus]

foobar2000 with wine for music is perfect.

[xequence]

I really dont like xine-ui...

For gnome, rythmbox. For KDE, amaroK,

[majikstreet]

For music: beep-media-player or rhythmbox
For video: vlc or mplayer (gtk version )

[Malphas]

foobar2000 with wine for music is perfect.

+2

[DoeRayMe]

Gxine is good for audio/video

[phen]

amarok roks!

(on gnome, too!)

[denisesballs]

amarok roks!

(on gnome, too!)

Being a Gnome guy, I can't believe how long I went without realizing this. I usually hate KDE apps, but K3B and amaroK are way ahead of anything for Gnome. And they run fantastic natively.

The best apps are definitely amaroK for music and totem-xine for video, IMO of course.