On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:13:42PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:

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> mplayer cannot understand DVD menus. That is the only problem mplayer

> has IMHO.

ogle is about the only unix app out there which works reasonably well

with dvd menus.
mplayer has a lot of minor issues. Lots of option combinations make it

dump core. Some extra functionality is broken. Its command-line options

are often hard to figure out. It's mostly single-threaded, which is annoying

with recent processors. Some of its codecs don't synch properly on fast

forward... but yeah, apart from all these problems it works fine.
For jakemsr: as far as video quality goes, mplayer can have it fairly good,

probably as good as vlc or better. But you have to play with post-filtering

options to get there.