Best multimedia apps

[DrMega]

Hi all

What are the best multimedia apps? I want to do the following:
* Play mp3s / WMAs
* Play audio CDs
* Watch DVDs
* Watch / Listen to streaming media from the web
* Get media from my phone via bluetooth

Cheers

[Zelmo]

Amarok came out on top in this PC World round-up.

[tuxv]

* Play mp3s / WMAs
* Play audio CDs
* Watch / Listen to streaming media from the web

You can do these things with Amarok (Only streaming audio from the internet)
And you'll need some codecs to play WMAs

* Watch DVDs
* Watch / Listen to streaming media from the web

To watch DVDs you can use XINE, MPlayer or Kaffein.
To watch streaming media you can Mplayer or RealPlayer.

I don't have a bluetooth enabled phone so I don't know an answer for your last question.

Hope you'll like my selections

tuxv

[fingal]

I use XMMS to play mp3s / OGG files. Just my 2 pence worth.

[Alboin]

Mplayer is nice for videos. (DVD's, Theora, etc.) Although, I use real player for playing streaming media and Helix Banshee for mp3's, ogg's, and CD's.

[tech_man]

VLC does almost everything.

[tuxv]

VLC does almost everything.

Yeah VLC is good, but I prefer Amarok when it comes to listening to mp3s.

[cayalee]

i fully support amarok, its well featured with playlists, cover art, lyrics, wikipedia info about artists, can connect to ipods/mp3 players, and given the right codecs will play anything.
i find mplayer best for dvd's

[apsel]

I found KPlayer to be the best for playing just about everything. It is very stable, has a very nice interface, and uses MPlayer as the backend player. It will do all you need, except maybe for the bluetooth part, never tried that.

[geraas]

Hi
I use Ubuntu and WinXP on the same network. I have been looking at getting a cross platform music (mp3 & ogg) player that will work on both systems.

I use Zinf on WinXP - has ogg support, very fast but sometimes skips a "corrupt" file that works on other players.

My mp3 collection lives on the WinXp box. I can browse the collection from Ubuntu (SMB) but most players (amaroK, Rhythmbox, Totem and Zinf) complain about scanning to build a collection. Totem seems to be best at playing music on the lan connection, but as it is not a dedicated music player it has no support for my iPod.

Enter Banshee! Now why on earth would I not be able to run Banshee on .net platform. I thought that mono would enable an app to run on all .net or mono systems.

Any thoughts or suggestions on this?