What is your favorite open source video player?

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You may use something obscure, or you may use a more popular video player. Which open source video player do you use? Tell us why you love—or hate—it. And, give one of these open source options a try:

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402 votes tallied
KMPlayer (KDE)
1% (5 votes)
Kodi
5% (22 votes)
Miro
0% (0 votes)
MPlayer
10% (39 votes)
Totem (GNOME)
4% (18 votes)
VLC (VideoLAN)
79% (318 votes)

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Jason van Gumster | November 4, 2015
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Perhaps it's a force of habit, but mplayer is my go-to for video playback. VLC is my back-up if I need wacky things like an on-screen GUI. :P

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Step Schwarz | November 4, 2015
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I love the new Totem interface but I do a lot of work with video and I really need to be able to open multiple instances to view videos side-by-side. I can't figure out how to get Totem to do this; --no-existing-session doesn't do the trick anymore.

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Alejandro | November 4, 2015
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Sometimes I use Kodi when I need the subtitles, but I usually prefer VLC

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stuart | November 4, 2015
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I use the mpv fork of Mplayer

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BJ Maynard | November 4, 2015
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I use Kodi everyday at home but at work- it's VLC- just can't beat it.

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me | November 4, 2015
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Kodi is great. my favorite (video) postcasts, my whole dvd and music collection, tv, radiostation, trailers for cinema movies........ all in 1 place and i can control it with my mobile phone (yarc webinterface)

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charles | November 4, 2015
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I use mpv since it is the only to provide everything I need

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Anonymous | November 5, 2015
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SMPlayer.

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RMT | November 10, 2015
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bino for stereoscopic 3D
http://bino3d.org/

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Anonymous | November 10, 2015
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I use Xfce so I use the reader shipped with it : Parole

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Troy Dawson | November 10, 2015
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They didn't have dragon on the list. For me it's dragon and if it's not available, VLC.

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fdfgd | November 17, 2015
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And what about Amarok?