On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Jason Hsu wrote: > What are your favorite multimedia apps (DVD/video player/ripper, > audio/CD player/ripper, etc.) that are lightweight? I'm not sure how lightweight you're going to get media players to be. Especially video players. There are so many millions of codecs out there, for one. Same for any kind of ripper - they want to be able to handle anything you throw at them and output anything you want them to throw out. Doubly true if you want anything with a GUI. I mean you can always use mpg123 to play your MP3 files one by one, and I bet someone's made a commandline interface to do playliss like that, but it's just so much simpler to use a GUI jukebox kinda thing. Although if you want to go REALLY lightweight you put all your media on a media server and use a web-based player like Subsonic or something. Since you already have Gnome, wouldn't it make sense to use Gnome's media players? I mean then you already have a lot of the dependencies. As for me - I use mplayer for video (on my HTPC, I like it much better than MythTV's builtin player). VLC alwyas gets top reviews, too. I use Rhythmbox to play music on my desktop. I'm not sure why. I used to use xmms a million years ago. The HTPC uses MythTV's music player though, and like I said, I have Subsonic running so I can stream that through a browser or my phone. I use abcde to rip CDs to FLAC, which goes on the media server, and then use pacpl to convert to MP3 for streaming. I know abcde can supposedly rip to both FLAC and MP3 at once but that was just messy as I wanted to integrate into my existing trees. Thanks to people on the lit for suggesting abcde, btw. Both abcde and pacpl should be pretty lightweight, I'd think. I use Handbrake to rip DVDs. I've been working on digitizing my DVD collection like I have my CD collection, now that we have the storage capacity for hundreds of movies. I don't know that it's light, but it works. -Yaron --