Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

I know this may seem redundant, but I looked at all the threads on these two media players and to say the least the threads quickly became convoluted for me.:confused: As a Newbie, which would be the best and easiest to use? They all seem to have posted attributes and negatives, but from a users point of view, which one do you recommend based upon current experience? I am looking for straightforward use of music and videos. All I want to do is download the best one and move on and enjoy both music and video (Movies) on my N800. I have OS2008 installed. This should be a lot easier than I'm apparently making it, but I would like advice.:)

Thanks in advance.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

MediaBox is a pretty front-end to mplayer.

Kagu and UKMP are both very pretty front-ends to mplayer.

Canola 2 is a very very pretty (but still very beta) front-end to the built-in media playback or mplayer.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

Thank you very much. Things are now making sense to me. It appears that mplayer is the underlying app for all but Canola, if I understand what you said? Load mplayer first and choose the front end that suits me. Or wait for Canola 2 official release.
Thanks again, your post has been very helpful.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

If you install whatever front end it usually comes with mplayer built in. Or it uses the framework so you won't have to load it separately.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

Thank you, now I see what what I need to do.

Again, I appreciate your posst.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

canola 2 may be beta , but there are no issues with me for using it and im picky as hell when it comes to media players... i strongly reccomend it.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

Well, That's good enough for me. I may wait to see if there are any other followup posts, but I think I take your recommendation.

Thanks.

BTW, I think the N800 is great, it serves all my mobile needs. I travel to Europe quite a bit and don't like lugging my laptop everywhere, so this more than fits the bill. Now if only I could print from it directly to a usb printer, all would be sunshine.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

The only real usability issues with the Canola 2 beta for me are:

• Album art and video thumbnailing are impossible to use for an inexperienced user; and even for experienced users the results are sub-optimal IME.
• No pre-configuration for the known media directories: /media/mmc2/Video, /home/user/MyDocs/{.sounds,.images,.videos} - this means a new user won't see any media found at all, with no explanation.
• The icons in the green theme are all round, and have no distinct outline making them very hard to distinguish intuitively. The graphite theme gets this right.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

Hummmm. Looks as if Canola 2 is departing from my KISS philosophy.;)
I'll have to rethink my options.:confused:

thanks for your post.

Re: Mediabox or Mplayer?
 

album art works perfect for me , i wrote a guide on how to do it correctlyif youd like it just pm me with your email addy.