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noob. please forgive my ignorance.
running: r5e50, pvr350, p4 1.7ghz 512mb ram, nvidia fx5200, 27" flat tube tv

I'm no expert, but I have had enough experience with VLC to say that it is a very good media player, as it could handle anything I threw at it. The unfortunate thing about it is that there wasn't a version for R5D1 (or whatever version of Debian) that could handle DVD menus. I tried to compile it from source and failed miserably (you should see the list of necessary software that you must download, unpack and compile BEFORE you can even think of installing VLC...!!!).

R5E50 includes VLC, I believe. I still prefer it over Xine or mplayer, but I am using Xine right now on my R5D1 boxen. I may go back to it once I switch to R5E50.

-sTv

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R7.3 Backend
CPU: 1.8 GHz
RAM: 2Gb
Drives: 500Gb IDE; IDE DVD-RW
Mobo: eMachines
Tuners (Analog): PVR-250
Tuners (Digital): DCT-6200 Motorola Cable Box, HDHomeRun (OTA + cable)

No user needs any approval from a "knoppmyth god". R5E50 does include VLC.

Why not use the builtin players? From what I understand everything is ffmpeg anyway (So the builtin player should handle most codecs (wmv9 was just added recently)), so why have an external dependency .20 has dvd menu support so that takes care of that.

sure... it's included and works fine.

it's weird - i'd like to use one player for everything (live TV, DVD, avi, others). i don't know why, but it seems like a good idea.

however, i find different players handle different things better. vlc kinda hiccups on some dvd's (even with "pineapple") for me and i can't get it to scan for channels on my capture card (TV setup for vlc is complicated). so i use the built in player for live TV and DVD (which uses mplayer, right?).

mplayer and xine really have a hard time with avi aspect ratios for fullscreen, though. i find that mplayer will randomly detect the wrong aspect ratio mid-show and change on me. vlc gets aspect ratios right every single time.

i've never had any codec problems, though. as long as you have the right libraries installed, i think all three players can handle pretty much anything you throw at them... at least i haven't found anything they choke on yet (i haven't tried anything with serious DRM though).

i probably could figure out how to fix these problems with every player and muck with my system until i'm only using one player, but why? everything works now.

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#R5.5#
ATSC OTA on FE/BE - EPoX EP-8KDA7I, AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512MB RAM, GeForce FX5200, Kworld ATSC-110x2
FE - Antec NSK2400, ABIT NF-M2 (w/GeForce 6150), Athlon 64 3800+, 1 GB RAM

yeah now that I've actually got everything working with my system I can see that the off the shelf setup works great. internal for TV/mpeg, mplayer for AVI, xine for DVD

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noob. please forgive my ignorance.
running: r5e50, pvr350, p4 1.7ghz 512mb ram, nvidia fx5200, 27" flat tube tv