-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: >> On 3/1/07, Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> * does not ever crash ;) >> >> I've never seen a media player for any OS that never crashes (other >> than the one built into a Tivo). mplayer is the closest I have seen. >> I guess if you only need to support a single format like MPEG4 it >> could be made reliable. But all bets are off if you need to support >> proprietary codecs. > > as i said, it's absolutely not a problem if it supported only one or two > open, well-documented and generally sane video codecs. the most > important thing (i think) is the pre-buffering feature - tacking a nice > "instant play" user interface on a playlist-driven player wouldn't be > hard, but i don't know of any existing players that do buffering... I'm working low priority on a tool that could do the job (event triggered video sequencing), but it's far from being usable - check xjadeo and gjvideotimeline SVN-devel-branches on sourceforge and stay tuned for video-jack... You can already do sth. like that with the xjadeo remote control, but xjadeo does not pre-cache video (the xj5-branch and gjvidetimeline do), but you can change the video-file(s) and video-file-offset during runtime and use JACK-transport to start/stop the show. mplayer does provide low latency, caching and double-buffering. If you only want to trigger sequences: just script it, it can even read simple EDLs and is quite flexible. - but you can not sync it to some external app, only trigger it to start/stop. The dual-head setup depends on your grafix hardware not the software. many chipsets only allow accelerated video only on one video-pipe (usually the built-in on laptops) - you can always render something on the 2nd screen in RGB (check mplayer -x ..) but it's probably going to be slow.. robin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF6G5FeVUk8U+VK0IRArAgAJ9rjgy4COPml/W0KY8hXahmlC1TpQCeMAHB SFFSNMlNRWUTAJ+Y+fT/2/8= =OQ6n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
