Calling mplayer users

[Paul Smith]

On 12/22/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> 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,

It is easy and quick to fix xine: see the thread at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=116653178122843&w=2

Paul