When it comes to video players, Kaffeine is my favourite, several reasons for it being that it plays anything I feed it with, it has good subtitle support and the interface it provides is clean and simple to use. Well, the interface is more a matter of taste, since most of the video players have it the same, no matter if they are for KDE or GNOME. But I prefer the players which only use a single window over the the ones who come with a main window for controls and menus and another one for playing the movie itself. As I said, only a matter of taste.

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Kaffeine plays audio CDs, DVDs and VCDs, and all the popular video formats out there, given that all the necessary codecs are installed. It uses the Xine engine.

However, I noticed that playing both Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny at 1080p takes up 100% CPU resources on Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, the sound stops for a while sometimes, and there are obvious FPS drops. This didn't happen with SMPlayer, which uses the MPlayer engine by default.

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