Calling mplayer users

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 22 December 2006 20:04, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:40:40 +0000
>
> Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > I guess I'll have to fix xine tomorrow - but is mplayer really so lame?
>
> That sounds like a symptom of mplayer using one of the video modes
> that allows it to display directly to the framebuffer, bypassing most
> of X. Since the image isn't "really" on the display, ksnapshot can't
> see it. Among the 3,247,928 possible command line options to mplayer,
> I'm pretty sure one of 'em says "Hey render video in an x11 window",
> at which point ksnapshot should be able to see it (but mplayer performance
> might not be as good).
>
Weird, but it has to be something like that.

> P.S. I find the interface to mplayer to be totally insane, but mplayer
> itself seems to be the only linux tool that plays every video I've ever
> thrown at it, so I wouldn't call it lame, just horribly confusing :-).

It plays the video, all right, but it's useless for the checks I want to run 
against the burning.

Anne
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