Media Player Classic - Similar alternative?

Quite simple really:

I love Media Player Classic. I ditched VLC when I found it. But it only runs on Windows. WINE doesn't seem able to run it.

So, is there an alternative that is similar for Ubuntu? I don't just mean being able to play everything, though that is a great point. One of the things I love about Media Player Classic is when you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen, a bar pops up showing you how far in you are, allowing you to skip ahead or back, and either clicking on the video or pressing space bar will pause/play. These features were what made it great for me. So is there anything similar, with that little task bar at the bottom? I don't like having to double-click out of full screen in VLC just to see how far in I am in a video.

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

There are a lot of video and music players available simply through Synaptic. Try looking at your options in Applications > Add/Remove.

 

I would suggest you look at two of the most popular players; mplayer and xine.

mplayer (using the CLI or GUI) uses space bar to paue/play, and has nice keyboard-based navigation; right/left +/- 10s, up/down, +/- 1min, pg.up/pg.dn +/- 10min. There is an OSD that pops up showing where in the movie you are every time you navigate (a progress bar; it doesn't show current/total time [edit: Using 'o', you can indeed see the current and total time of the movie!]). I'm not sure if this meets your needs or not, but it's probably worth a try, even though it's not identical to WMP. The GUI interface offers a bit more or less, depending on what you want to do.

Xine, I believe (though it's been a long time since I used it), has similar navigation and features.

I use mplayer. It supports every codec/container under the sun, and generally works great.

 

gxine may be the most familiar interface for you, it's much like MPC.

 

Thank you for the suggestions.

I finally got my 3D acceleration working, so now they all work.
I tried a few out, and surprisingly Kaffeine turned out to be the one closest to Media Player Classic (it has a bar at the bottom when you mouse to the bottom of the screen). The only thing I wish I could change is the full screen shortcut... I tried to change it to Alt+Enter but it came up with Alt+Return, and then when I try, Alt+Enter doesn't do anything.

All in all, it seems to fit quite nicely, however.

 

VLC plays EVERTHING though.

 

It does... yes. Good alternative, if something doesn't want to work...

But I don't like the interface of VLC. *shrug*

 

vlc rocks!
Is very media player classic style.

 

Since it's not used in that app, I tend to use "F" as the shortcut for full-screen. Works quite well for me, and it easier than a two-key combination.

Enter and Return are the same key. So what you may be running into is that the system has alt+enter hooked at a higher level than the media player, possibly something in KDE's configuration, so it doesn't get all the way to Kaffeine. Not sure, though.

 

Actually, VLC has horrible support for softsubs...not a problem if you don't use them, but a big one if you do.

On the other hand, VLC's looks shouldn't be the primary concern--it's very skinnable and customizable in both interface and function.

Try mplayer though?

 

I like xine.

 

I use SMPlayer for reasons:
It support almost all kinds of format like MPC does. VLC doesn't play RMVB, but SMPlayer does.
It support native AMD 64 MPlayer to play RMVB, and look nice.
It is just a MPlayer front end. So light and simple.