For audio I usually just use beep-media-player or lately xmms. Although I like rythmbox and amaroK for just listening to music xmms/beep-media-player is the simplest and comes more naturally to me.

For video I usually use what works best for the given movie, but lately I'm beginning to like totem and mplayer was also one of my favourites, so I'd say those two.

I use Kaffeine for listening to music while I am doing something else (like now) and for watching DVDs and playing audio/video streams from internet.

I use MPlayer for other video files and Amarok for listening to music (when I simply listen to music without doing anything else), because Amarok can nicely fetch artist/album information from Wikipedia and get lyrics.

I tent to use mplayer for video, and one-off audio files, xmms for audio and ogle for DVD's.

JuK, because it doesn't flash, make weird action noises, hides nicely, and allows me to listen to music while I work without disturbing me. Also it respects that I may want to focus my system resources on something else other than a flashy music player/manager.

I guess there are a few more reasons... it's a fairly small app, in respect to something more like amaroK and even with it's small design, it allows me to find what I want to listen to within seconds out of my several thousand files.

Last reason I guess, because it uses my splash screen. Hehe.

Otherwise, I am happy to run xmms/bmp, Rythmbox, amaroK and so forth.

Aaah, I think there is something about Bangor that makes us use XMMS, and Mplayer

The same as dylunio.

James

Kaffeine can use MPlayer as the backend. If you didn't compile Kaffeine, install the devel package, install KPlayer and run kaffeine -w.

I use Kaffeine because it can use multiple backends when one doesn't work, plus it has a simple UI and it's KDE.

That is true, but I am used to MPlayer, its command line options and keybindings during play, and I think I'll lose all that if I run it through Kaffeine.

VLC Media Player

For music, I'm using xmms right now. I've used close to every music player around, and I really don't like just about all of em. xmms is just what I'm used to. One day I may finish writing the one I started, maybe not. Or maybe xmms2 will turn out to be something I like, it looks quite interesting, and is somewhat similar to mpd, which I did like but had a few annoyances with.

Video I use xine. Usually gxine frontend, but I been looking at totem lately, I'm just not sure I want to install all the gnome crap it needs. I got mplayer, but I haven't used it in a very long time. Weird that I install it on every build, but never use it. Maybe one day I will.

I've heard of mpd. Sounds like something I would consider using, especially since I've got a lot more terminals open as of late.