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[rayzoredge]

rpgsearcherz, on Apr 14 2009, 07:12 AM, said:

(Edit : What is Beryl? Not sure what that is/how it affects the video being shown)

Beryl is what now is Compiz/Fusion: your desktop effects for Ubuntu.

Also, for OP: You can WINE uTorrent, or just use kTorrent as ironchicken has pointed out.

[iGuest]

Songbird.Media Player For Ubuntu

Songbird is an open source, skinnable music player available for linux.

>> http://getsongbird.Com/-reply by paul belanger

[iGuest]

i got error while installing vlc player from ubuntu software centre Media Player For Ubuntu

thee is a problem while installing vlc player from Ubuntu software centre. How is this happen ? and there is a problem in my monitor that mean there is not enough brightness in monitor. So that there is no program for increasing brightness and gamma. If any one can help please help me.

-reply by Suresh Ghatuwa

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ExaileMedia Player For Ubuntu

I've tried a good number of media players on both Windows and Ubuntu and have found the following:

Amarok is almost perfect for my needs, if it was GNOME instead of KDE I'd still be using it. It looks great, works well, and I love that opening a media file adds it to the playlist rather than playing it immediately (handy for creating playlists on the spot).

 My Amarok replacement is Exaile which is based on Amarok and designed to work in the GNOME environment. I'm not into skinning, and I don't think Exaile offers it, so I'm fine with it just taking on my GTK theme. It's appearance is fairly customizable - I like the option of placing the OSD wherever you want. Opened media files are queued rather than being played, as with Amarok.

Another alternative is Jet Audio, which is my favourite Windows player, and does work decently well under Wine.

I've also used Banshee and RhythmBox, which both work well but didn't blow me away. And, as other people mentioned, VLC is a great player but a little basic for my taste.

Oh, for torrenting I suggest Transmission - it is included with the base Ubuntu install and, IMO, it's the best bit torrent handler available. There are some P2P network solutions out there as well, like GTK-Gnutella. DC++ also works on Linux. I don't use either of these myself, but they're available in the Software Channel.

-reply by whidden