Hi Dotan Cohen! On 2008.10.27 at 17:56:10 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote next: > (similar to that available in MS Windows Media Player for those > familiar with it). The user makes presentations with a mouse, and > keyboard input is not an option without reevaluating her entire > workflow. What frontends can the mplayer community recommend? Thanks. I have no idea about windows media player, but if you need control similar to stock xine ui (mouse wheel changes playback speed), you can get this with stock mplayer. Just use something like MOUSE_BTN0 speed_mult 0.9091 MOUSE_BTN1 \ speed_set 1.0 MOUSE_BTN2 speed_mult 1.1 in input.conf. I don't think you can bind it to mousewheel, though, since after a mousewheel input bug was introduced a few years ago it's unusable (makes mplayer's input stuck), but this way you can left/right click to slow down and speed up playback, and middle click returns speed to 100%. The difference with xine is that you can't set negative speed; in xine, when decreasing playback speed, eventually you can make video go backwards (with configurable speed); I don't think it's possible with mplayer. If you need that, you might want to use some player based on xine-lib (xine, totem and so on). As for mplayer's gui interface, smplayer seems to be most popular right now. It seems to be quite advanced, but I never tried it and can't say if it supports classic input.conf assignments. -- Vladimir
