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I know that most people love this player, I am one of the few that is not enamored with it (for example it is hard to get it to play .mkv files or HD movies)
Is it possible to replace it as the default player with another one on my system?
:)
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SMplayer or Gnome-Mplayer
Code:
harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$ apt-cache search smplayer
smplayer - complete front-end for MPlayer and MPlayer2
smplayer-themes - complete front-end for MPlayer - icon themes
smplayer-translations - complete front-end for MPlayer and MPlayer2 - translation files
smtube - YouTube videos browser
harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$ apt-cache policy swplayer
N: Unable to locate package swplayer <<<<oops, too many dos equis beers! ???
harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$ apt-cache policy smplayer
smplayer:
Installed: 0.8.6-2
Candidate: 0.8.6-2
Version table:
*** 0.8.6-2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$ apt-cache search gnome-mplayer
gnome-mplayer - GTK+ interface for MPlayer
gnome-mplayer-dbg - GTK+ interface for MPlayer (debugging symbols)
libgmlib-dev - gnome-mplayer library (development files)
libgmlib1 - gnome-mplayer library (shared library)
libgmlib1-dbg - gnome-mplayer library (debugging symbols)
libgmtk-dev - gnome-mplayer toolkit (development files)
libgmtk1 - gnome-mplayer toolkit (shared library)
libgmtk1-data - gnome-mplayer toolkit (common files)
libgmtk1-dbg - gnome-mpayer toolkit (debugging symbols)
smtube - YouTube videos browser
harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-mplayer
gnome-mplayer:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.8-2
Version table:
1.0.8-2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$
LL 3.6,2.8
Dell XT2 > Touchscreen Laptop
Dell 755 > Desktop
Acer 150 > Desktop
I am who I am. Your approval is not needed.
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I use QMPlay2 for video, and VLC for music.
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WOW rokytnji! Thanks...but all that is Greek to me...maybe when I want to play a movie I will stick with the "open with" choice, much lower chance that I will stuff the whole thing up lol
:)
PS - the best player for movies of any type (that I have tried so far) is one called "videos" ...not so sure where I got it from...
