From: Michael Havens > the default media player is Banshee which makes things s-l--o---w > down. Not as bad a the download manager did but still... I have > no experience with media players so I need to open this to discussion. > Which do you guys and gals prefer and, if you can say, why do you > prefer it? I'm looking for something that is not very resource > intensive as this will be on a machine that is around ten years old. Music: audacious . It's essentially a clone of old-school WinAMP, it can use the same skin files, and it really whips the llama's ass. Its predecessor XMMS ran fine on a P150 with 48M, so it should run just fine on a machine from 2002. Movies: Depends. mplayer or xine. xine has better DVD-navigation, while mplayer can play almost any video format. I use xine more often, because I've often wanted to play DVDs I owned/rented on a Linux box. Video decoding is more CPU-intensive than audio decoding, though, so you'll probably want something like an PII-400 with 128M to get reasonable results for MPEG-2. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss