Comments on: 16 Free and Open Source Video Players for Linux in 2023

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:26:18 +0000

I have KDE Neon Linux operating system and have problems with VLC and my Radeon graphics card. Other players that are installed include a smplayer, MPlayer, and MPV media player, but only VLC supports the DVD menu where I can use my mouse to select an episode from the menu.

When I try this in all of the other players, nothing happens. The only way to play an episode is to open the .vob file from the video folder. A nuisance. Besides VLC, do any of the above-suggested players support a DVD menu?

By: Uche

Uche — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:23:55 +0000

Miro caught my interest but unfortunately, I can't install it. When tried I got this errors

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 miro : Depends: libavcodec53 (>= 4:0.8-1~) but it is not installable or
                 libavcodec-extra-53 (>= 4:0.8-1~) but it is not installable
        Depends: libavformat53 (>= 4:0.8-1~) but it is not installable or
                 libavformat-extra-53 (>= 4:0.8-1~) but it is not installable
        Depends: libavutil51 (>= 4:0.8-1~) but it is not installable or
                 libavutil-extra-51 (>= 4:0.8-1~) but it is not installable
        Depends: libtag1c2a (>= 1.5) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-support (>= 0.90.0) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-gst0.10 but it is not installable
        Depends: python-webkit but it is not installable
        Depends: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base but it is not installable
        Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good but it is not installable
        Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad but it is not installable
        Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly but it is not installable
        Depends: gstreamer0.10-x but it is not installable
        Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0 but it is not installable
        Depends: libtag1-vanilla but it is not installable
        Depends: libtorrent-rasterbar5 but it is not installable or
                 libtorrent-rasterbar6 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So for now Debian has no audiovisual player as nightingale and banshee are deprecated and do not work any longer. The only option left is Kodi but its Ui is more suited for the big screen, not desktop.

By: Ed Peterson

Ed Peterson — Thu, 07 May 2020 06:17:06 +0000

I just tried to install most of these, and very few ran. You may want to update as none of this was helpful to me.

By: Serge

Serge — Wed, 29 May 2019 12:37:22 +0000

Snappy minimalistic video player

By: ThumbOne

ThumbOne — Tue, 28 May 2019 06:50:15 +0000

Re: Kodi I tried to install it on Ubuntu and it complains about the Python Cryptography module version …