On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 14:21 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 14 December 2009 13:47:26 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > OT: in the interests of having a more user-friendly experience, such as > > fast-forward etc., I also tried with gmplayer (also with -playlist). It > > started playing OK but on hitting the fast-forward control the UI just > > froze and had to be "kill -9"'ed. gmplayer seems to be someone's idea of > > a joke, which is a pity as mplayer is otherwise very capable. > > When I first tried using a mplayer GUI (don't remember which one) several > years ago, it was so buggy that I decided to give up on it and learn to use > mplayer from the terminal. Never looked back. Maybe today GUI's are better, > but I still only hear about problems with them. > > Incidentally, I tried to play the link you posted, and it does play (with the > -playlist option). The fast-forwarding *should* work in the console as well > (using the cursor keys), but in this case it doesn't. I also had to killall > mplayer (twice, though it worked without the -9). This may be a bug, but I bet > that the codec for .ram just doesn't support seeking or is broken or > something. If you have the whole file on the disk, and if seeking works when > playing the file, then I guess increasing the cache buffer might help with > seeking in streams, but I'm not sure. > > Best, :-) > Marko > > P.S. Goedel's incompleteness theorem is indeed an interesting topic, I'll > probably listen it all later this afternoon. :-) Agreed. The In Our Time series on BBC radio is one of the best things out there. They are also available as podcasts, including on iTunes. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
