On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 01:36 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:47 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > The -playlist option made it work. > > Sometimes needed for .ram files, as they're often a playlist or referrer > of some time. Not always needed, as some .ram files are the media, > itself. And I've noticed mplayer *sometimes* not care when you you put > -playlist in where it shouldn't be. OK. I still think the error message could be a lot better though. > > 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. > > gmplayer never was very good for me. It liked to crash, a lot. I found > smplayer to be much better. And there's another front end that I can't > remember the name of. gmplayer is a recompiled mplayer, that behaves > differently, as *well* as having a GUI. I'll take a look at smplayer, thanks. > Some streams just are not seekable, and you'll find trying to seek being > ignored, or wedging the player, sometimes quite hard. For playing back > an already downloaded stream that won't seek, you can add the -idx > command option, and mplayer will assess the whole file (taking a bit of > time), then fake up an index that it can use to seek. Following on from that, do you know of a way to capture the stream using mplayer (or anything else for that matter)? RFM I guess, but the FM is rather long and complex :-) 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
