Talk:Comparison of media players/Archive 4

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Hi-res DVD-A support?

Any source for QuickTime's & RealPlayer's ability to play DVD-A discs (not regular DVD with AC3/DTS/LPCM audio but those high resolution audio DVDs)? I thought that WinDVD, if I recall right, was only player for PC able to play those (not with the newest version as the DRM was hacked). --84.248.57.66 14:02, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Missing Kaffiene

This article is missing Kaffeine. 165.230.46.146 22:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Kaffeine is a frontend for xine. It shares its capabilities. CE. 192.35.241.134 14:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Problem in the features section

On Comparison_of_media_players#Features, there's a column which has two different labels on the top and bottom of the table. "Gapless Audio Decoding" on top and "Gapless MP3/AAC Decoding" on the bottom. I think that's leading to some errors on the column too. I'll try to find when this happened, but even if I fix it, please make an effort to correct the information on that column according to the label which is agreed on for this column. Rbarreira 13:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Multithreading support

Do any of these media players have support for multithreading? If so, shouldn't this comparison note that? -Aknorals 13:38, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Replay Gain

Replay Gain should be added to the table for things to support. 165.230.46.153 17:45, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

FLIC? WTF?

Why on earth would flc be listed in the list of video codecs? Obviously whoever added it felt no need to bother testing it against other players, and it's far more rare than most mplayer supported formats (such as Indeo and DV). Bizarre. Add H.264/AVC as a column and drop that, I'd say.

Also there are two entirely incompatible types of flash video, one based on Sorenson Video and the other on VP6. Should this be made clearer in the table? 69.110.75.165 10:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

how about a reoganization of the video formats section?
  • merge mpeg1 and mpeg2 and boxes 'mpeg1 only' 'mpeg2 only' 'both' 'none'.
  • rename 'mpeg4' to 'mpeg4 asp (divx)'
  • add 'mpeg4 avc (h264)'.
  • rename 'flash' to 'flash1 (sorenson)/flash8 (vp6)' and have boxes 'both' 'none' 'flash1' 'flash8 (vp6)'.
  • remove players which have all 'NO' format support. they are just taking up space.
  • remove flic.
-Compn 16:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

HD DVD and Blue-Ray in vlc

User 24.168.158.188 added HD DVD and Blue-Ray capabilities for vlc on 24 November 2006. I can't believe that and tried to google for some information: No indication that it's possible to play them on vlc but a few claims that it won't work. So I propose a "No" here. CE 192.35.241.134 14:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

i agree, vlc does not have this feature yet. Compn 16:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
removed hddvd and blueray from vlc. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html will tell you when vlc gets support for it.
afaict, vlc supports evo files, and vc1 codec. which are the container and video codec used in hd-dvd, no idea about the audio codec. no clue about bluray either. vlc needs the decrypting and demuxing of the disc to fully support hd-dvd now. Compn 20:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Winamp plays HDCDs?

According to the charts in this article, Winamp can playback HDCDs. However, according to this Wiki article on HDCD, the only software-based application that can playback HDCDs in their 20-bit format is Windows Media Player. Can anyone confirm if Winamp can indeed play HDCDs? Not One Of Us 21:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Midi playback in XMPlay using soundfonts

According to http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html, under the midi plugin, soundfont 2 files can be used. Can we include midi playback capabilities on the comparison page? 219.95.201.49 03:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

SQL Representation

Before I sit down and put all the info from the tables into an SQL database, has anyone already done it? --207.59.156.99 15:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Songbird

Songbird is listed as a video player, but should be listed as an audio player I think. Am I mistaken?

It is primary a audio player but it also plays video files. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.167.171.252 (talk) 20:47, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

Cost by Currency

It seems to me to be more descriptive for an international Wikipedia readership the Cost column should have $ (dollar) signs preceeded with the currency it is quoting. Ie if US dollars is should read USD$20. At the moment one can only assume that the $ (dollar) signs indicate the most popular dollar currency which is the US dollar. Mrbeardy 05:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Compressed files format

Which of theese all files are capable of run songs packed in compressed files, like rar and zip, I know then foobar2000 do it without problem, is there another one then do it so.

Citation for subtitle support in xine

User:87.167.128.181 removed the citation about subtitle support in xine with the edit summary "Please don't make unnecessary footnotes, there are already to many". It's not unnecessary, because it lists which subtitle formats are supported by xine. Sources must be cited for material that is challenged, and when I added the citation, I was challenging the claim that there is no support for SubStation Alpha subtitles in xine. — A.M. 11:55, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

== Irfanview is a video and picture editor and player that needs to be added to this list

/* It is written by a guy at University of Austria I think. I found out about it on a Physics website and have been using it for a long time, I think it is just as good as VLC or Media player. I especially like that it can handle playing video at any speed while you use the mouse to slide the tracking bar. I don't think any other player can do that. /* --Lasagnajohn 01:05, 15 May 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lasagnajohn (talk • contribs) 01:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC).


Reverse play proposal

Reverse playback of MPEG files are difficult but not impossible. And I see this functionality has some fun. Would someone put up something about this?

Fan Decheng, 2007-05-31

WMP plays flash?

News to me.