Theres also a gui frontend built into mplayer called mplayergui I think, you have to enable it during the configure process I just forget the exact option you pass to the configure script, though I think its something like --with-gui. Its written in gtk iirc, though don't know if its at all accessible. On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:44:26PM -0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > On that, then mplayer is probably a good choice. I am not sure about how it > would handle multiple directories, but it can do playlists (I think) so you > could do it that way if necessary. Mplayer certainly meets the many codecs > requirement, MP3, OGG, WAV, quicktime, windows media, realaudio, the list > goes on. > > I think there may be various front ends for mplayer, I think there is one > called mplay, not sure what that is like to use. > > From > Michael Whapples > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:47 AM > Subject: Re: winamp > > > > Basically, I want a player which will play the contents of an entire > > folder (including sub-folders), and will shuffle and repeat, whiles > > supporting as many codecs as possible. > > > > What will be my best bet? > > > > Cheers, > > > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:03 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > >> Firstly, do you want it for text console or gnome? in gnome there are > >> players such as gxine (ubuntu has this in its repositries), totem movie > >> player, etc (RealPlayer 10 is accessible to a level in gnome, if you > >> want that). In the text console, there is mplayer, trplayer (a text > >> front end for realplayer 8), cplay. > >> > >> Depends what you want from the player, for which is most appropiate. > >> Mplayer has plenty of codecs (and probably allows playing nearly any > >> format), but it has so many options that it can be complex to get > >> started with or for basic use. Cplay is more basic, but simpler for > >> navigating through lists of tracks. > >> > >> From > >> Michael Whappoles > >> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:49 +0000, Chris Norman wrote: > >> > Hi people, > >> > I remember hearing something on this list about a piece of software for > >> > linux that worked like winamp (presumably with the same key commands > >> > and > >> > stuff), and am trying to find it. > >> > > >> > Any ideas what it is? I've just tried xine but couldn't get it to work, > >> > I've also tried beep-media-player, but couldn't figure out some of > >> > that. > >> > > >> > Any ideas appreciated. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Now, it we had this sort of thing: yield -a for yield to all traffic yield -t for yield to trucks yield -f for yield to people walking (yield foot) yield -d t* for yield on days starting with t ...you'd have a lot of dead people at intersections, and traffic jams you wouldn't believe... -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands
