On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, thcuong wrote: t>I want to build a MPEG video player (Linux) in 3,5 months, in Java or C, t>so which one is the easiest to develop amongst these: Ah.. Are you really stuck between java or C? Writing frontend to mplayer -slave would be much easer with tcl/tk, for example. t>MPlayer, Hmm... You can use -slave option to write your own gui. You can make quite powerful player ;) t>FFMPEG This is great library, for decoding mpeg1/2/4, some audio formats, etc. You'll have to write demuxer and some other components yourself, however. t>Xine forget it - it may be too hard, and you'll have to hack xine sources anyway. You can try xine-remote, but you'll have to run xine anyway... What's the point in your own player, then? ;) t>Gstreamer never tried it... Btw, if you need only MPEG1, you can try smpeg - library by loki games, it works well. -- Vladimir