GMPlayer

GMPlayer is the "GUI" which comes with the MPlayer package. Dozens of other GUIs for The Movie Player are available.

You have it

The GMPlayer package is definitivly available and much likely already installed if you are using a GNU/Linux distribution.

Plays everything

The Movie Player will play any video file given to it even if they are partially broken. GMPlayer is just a fancy GUI for this player, which means that GMPlayer also plays everything from XViD to DVD to MP4 files.

Skins

There are many skins available for GMPlayer. These can make GMPlayer look very fancy.

However, the file picker does not use QT or GTK or anything other cool filebox code. It looks unimpressive and remains hard to use regardless of very fancy skin choosen.

In bullet summary

• GMPlayer is nice if you feel like playing a video file
• The playlist support & filemanager is redicilous. If you want to have a easy-to-use playlist with a mix of audio and video files then VLC is much likely a better choice. GMplayer does not, for all practical purposes, have a playlist.

Multimedia

HOWTO	Players	Rippers and Converters
Howto work with audio and video formats using command-line tools.Audio formats HOWTO Convert audio files HOWTO Dump audio streams from the Internet HOWTO Dump audio streams from a video file Video formats HOWTO Convert video files HOWTO Make a video DVD HOWTO Make a video (S)VCD HOWTO Dump video streams from the Internet	Xine Totem MPlayer GMPlayer KMPlayer Audio (only) players: Music Player Daemon	Video DVD rippers Dvd::rip - DVD ripper and encoder Avidemux2 Video downloaders youtube-dl (Fetches Youtube.com videos) Audio CD rippers KAudioCreator Ogg Theora encoders: Ffmpeg2theora