Calling mplayer users

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 14:09:51 UTC 2007


On 22/12/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> 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).
> >
> > 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 :-).
>
> Mplayer has got guis: kplayer  is one of them.
>

I think that Gplayer is released by the same folks wo wrote mplayer. I
use it, and I love it to death.

Dotan Cohen

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