Calling mplayer users

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 22 December 2006 22:11, spmirowski wrote:
> > From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>
> >
> > Feeling fed-up with xine being broken since the updates, and not really
> > having time to bother fixing it at the moment I decided to try mplayer. 
> > I use xine mainly for checking my home-made recordings, so the tools I
> > most need are the ability to step through the chapters and take a
> > snapshot of the title screen for use on the case.  I can't manage to do
> > either of these on mplayer, and wonder whether it is the app or my
> > ineptitude.
> >
> > Stepping through seems to take me just 10 seconds along the time-line -
> > rather slow for a long production.  I have 5-minute-ish chapters made,
> > and want to jump along them.  I can't find any snapshot tool, and using
> > ksnapshot seems to result in either a blank blue screen or a jig-saw
> > series of part-screens, overwriting previously saved unrelated pngs. 
> > I've never seen behaviour like this before.  Outside of mplayer ksnapshot
> > behaves perfectly.
> >
> > I guess I'll have to fix xine tomorrow - but is mplayer really so lame?
> >
> > Anne
>
> I use mplayer is good as a web plugin, however I am often having
> problems with it if I use it for much else.
>
> I compile and make xine lib and ui myself, thus I don't have to worry
> about rpm problems.  I highly recommend building it oneself.  I will use
> the rpms from the repos if a FC distro is brand new and lib or ui
> doesn't compile on it.  Currently 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 and 0.99.4 compile
> just fine on FC6.
>
> OT: I was using Totem-xine from livna, but the xine-lib was giving me
> problems, so I yum installed Totem-xine (resolves lib), then rpm -e the
> libs after and it uses the libs I compiled.
>
This is a mess, isn't it?  It's only about 2 weeks ago that I finally got 
totem to play my home-made videos, but it broke at the same time as xine.  
The freshmeat xine is working fine for me now, but totem isn't, and I don't 
have time to play with it right now.

Anne
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