If you find a playlist link using links and mplayer starts, how do you get it to play? I get some kind of an error, which If I find the time, I'll send along later. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:25 PM Subject: Re: mplayer > The -playlist flag will work with .m3u playlists as well. For example, it > works with ACB's radio Main Menu archives. As to the questions about > showing tags, Mplayer seems to be incapable of showing tags in OGG vorbis > files, but will show them in MP3 files. The -quiet and -really-quiet > options will lessen the output of Mplayer. You can set defaults with the > file .mplayer/config in your home directory. The man page briefly > explains this. I have mine including the line "cache=1024" because I find > that streaming audio from slower web sites works better with this as the > default. My only complaints about Mplayer are that I wish it would > automatically recognize playlists without requiring the -playlist flag, > and I wish that, when you paused and unpaused playback, the status line > would pick up where it left off rather than drawing a new status line. > What I mean is that you will still have the previous status line which > will be stopped where you paused the audio. You could press the space bar > several times and have a screen full of old status lines. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
