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Chipter
March 25th, 2008, 03:25 PM
I want to hear people's opinions on what the best Gnome programs in the following categories:

- Video player (Movies, subtitle support, etc)
- Audio Player (music)
- P2P (only thing I have is Limewire and it kind of sucks)

anything else that you think needs mentioning.
Any cool programs you think people should be using.

Ub1476
March 25th, 2008, 03:33 PM
Favorite GTK apps:

Video: VLC (I don't watch anything else than .avi..:p)
Audio: Quod Libet atm (even though my favorite music player is Amarok)
P2P: Deluge

hugmenot
March 25th, 2008, 04:00 PM
Mplayer
Quod Libet
MLDonkey

linuxisfree
March 25th, 2008, 04:06 PM
I want to hear people's opinions on what the best Gnome programs in the following categories:

- Video player (Movies, subtitle support, etc)
- Audio Player (music)
- P2P (only thing I have is Limewire and it kind of sucks)

anything else that you think needs mentioning.
Any cool programs you think people should be using.


I can't really answer the first 2 because i use Kaffeine for both (its obviously KDE)... but for Video the best GNOME based app would be VLC Media Player (is it GNOME?). Audio, well, not sure (i'm the type who uses 1 app for audio & video).


As for P2P, Absolutely DELUGE (these are for torrents). Oh, and let's not forget gtk-gnutella!

kpkeerthi
March 25th, 2008, 04:10 PM
Video -> VLC
Audio -> banshee (has good iPod support)
P2P -> rtorrent/deluge

bobdob20
March 25th, 2008, 04:17 PM
Video - Mplayer
Audio - mpd + ncmpc
P2P - rtorrent

not really gnome programs, but still good

chucky chuckaluck
March 25th, 2008, 04:28 PM
vlc and mplayer a both cross platform apps, not gnome. hey, OP, did you mean what would be the best apps, for those purposes, that would work well in gnome, or at all in gnome?

anyway...

mplayer
mpd+ncmpc

SomeGuyDude
March 25th, 2008, 04:30 PM
VLC
MPD + Sonata
deluge for torrents or Frostwire for all other

Martje_001
March 25th, 2008, 04:41 PM
VLC
Rhythmbox
Frostwire ;)

odiseo77
March 25th, 2008, 04:59 PM
Guake Terminal (http://www.guake-terminal.org/).

LaRoza
March 25th, 2008, 05:26 PM
VLC uses wxWidgets and soon QT 4, so it is for GNOME, but it is also native for other platforms as well.

mrgnash
March 25th, 2008, 05:29 PM
Totem.
Rhythmbox.
Deluge.

aktiwers
March 25th, 2008, 06:14 PM
VLC
RhythemBox/Banshee/Xmms
Deluge

Chipter
March 25th, 2008, 06:35 PM
hey, OP, did you mean what would be the best apps, for those purposes, that would work well in gnome, or at all in gnome?

the best programs for those purposes that will work in Gnome.

So yes things like Amarok (originally for KDE, but works fine in Gnome) are fine.

I mostly want to know because right now i'm using Totem for videos, and I hate it.
I'm using Amarok for Music, and I like it, but I want to know if there's anything better.
For P2P I'm using Limewire (for music downloading mostly) and I find it not as good as what I used to use on Windows, Soulseek, which was good for finding rarer music that I'm a fan of.

This is pretty much just a thread so I can try out other programs to use instead of Totem, Amarok, Limewire, etc.

Bungo Pony
March 25th, 2008, 06:42 PM
- Video player - Totem (I hate it too, but I rarely watch video)
- Audio Player - XMMS. It's simple, stable, and it works.
- P2P - Frostwire. I also have GTK-Gnutella

phrostbyte
March 25th, 2008, 06:50 PM
I'm going to have to say Totem for video player. The recent versions are very good. But I agree in that it USED to be crappy.

linux phreak
March 25th, 2008, 06:54 PM
Video:VLC
Audio:Exaile
P2P:deluge

sujoy
March 25th, 2008, 07:57 PM
Video: mplayer, vlc
Audio: mpd + ncmpc/sonata, audacious
P2P: transmission,deluge

chucky chuckaluck
March 25th, 2008, 08:08 PM
I mostly want to know because right now i'm using Totem for videos, and I hate it.

you might give smplayer a shot. it's a frontend for mplayer.

Vitamin-Carrot
March 25th, 2008, 09:09 PM
a front end for mplayer?

linkeries please

Jareth
March 25th, 2008, 10:58 PM
On my lack-luster pc:
VLC
VLC
Transmission

Twitch6000
March 25th, 2008, 11:02 PM
video-rythombox or mplayer
music-VLC
p2p-limewire and btorrent

reacocard
March 25th, 2008, 11:05 PM
Video - VLC or mplayer
Music - Exaile
P2P - Deluge

inzaneg
March 26th, 2008, 04:31 AM
video : vlc
audio : decibel
p2p : deluge

I tried using totem, but some sync problems and artifacts made me switch to vlc. No problems with vlc :)

running hardy heron

kpkeerthi
March 26th, 2008, 06:42 AM
a front end for mplayer?

linkeries please

mplayer is primarily command line based. ubuntu has gmplayer frontend for mplayer for GNOME. smplayer is for KDE (Qt based interface)

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

girishv
March 26th, 2008, 06:53 AM
Most probably gmplayer is already installed on your system if you had installed mplayer from source or from apt.

Try 'mplayer -gui' to check the same
You need a default skin and font (mplayer-skin-blue/mplayer-skins and mplayer-fonts in apt repo) for the gui to work.

girish

zbaddog
March 26th, 2008, 07:26 AM
Browser - Firefox 3 Beta 4 as of now :D
Audio - Banshee, gtkpod-aac for ipods
Network Manager - Wicd
Dock Program - AWN/Avant Window Navigator
P2P - Frostwire and Azureus

I wonder how you people use Deluge since its capped my speeds below 20 KB and Azureus brings it to peaks of 350 KB/sec which is higher than my connection limit of 330 KB/sec

reacocard
March 26th, 2008, 07:50 AM
Browser - Firefox 3 Beta 4 as of now :D
Audio - Banshee, gtkpod-aac for ipods
Network Manager - Wicd
Dock Program - AWN/Avant Window Navigator
P2P - Frostwire and Azureus

I wonder how you people use Deluge since its capped my speeds below 20 KB and Azureus brings it to peaks of 350 KB/sec which is higher than my connection limit of 330 KB/sec

did you enable upnp, nat-pmp, and pex in deluge? as I recall not all of them are enabled by defualt, which, depending on your setup, could cause those slowdowns. I personally have seen speeds of up to 8MB/s in deluge. (ubuntu iso, day of release :D )

zbaddog
March 26th, 2008, 07:59 AM
Yes but I thought Deluge didn't meet my needs anyways so I went back to Azureus

chucky chuckaluck
March 26th, 2008, 08:05 AM
mplayer is primarily command line based. ubuntu has gmplayer frontend for mplayer for GNOME. smplayer is for KDE (Qt based interface)

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

in addition to those two, carrot, there is also kmplayer (kde) which can use both mplayer and xine.

pluckypigeon
March 31st, 2008, 10:45 PM
This post isn't very specific.

These are my favorite recommended apps, not just gnome ones though:


Web Browser: Opera :^o

P2P : Frostwire

Chat Client : Pidgin

Editors : Bluefish / Gedit

Multimedia Player - Gnome-Mplayer

File Management - Gnome Commander

There is a top 10 linux app review on my site pluckypigeon (http://www.pluckypigeon.com/linuxapps.html)

ice60
April 1st, 2008, 12:32 AM
i like gnome-mplayer for video too, and audacious for music, audacious has 100s of audio settings. 8)

i took some pictures of them so everyone can get jealous :D

SomeGuyDude
April 1st, 2008, 12:37 AM
If Audacious would integrate with my desktop better (for example, why the hell doesn't it pick up any Compiz settings??) it would be golden. Like you said, 100's of audio settings and dammit it sounds GREAT.

pluckypigeon
April 1st, 2008, 04:37 PM
I do think that gnome-mplayer fits in best to the gnome desktop. I like it's minimalism