2008/10/27 Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin at vm10124.spb.edu>: > 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. > Thank you Vladimir. While this solves the problem of controlling the playback speed via the mouse, she insists on seeing a slider. Unbelievable how people who are used to one way of doing things cannot fathom another way of dong things. I hope that she never has to drive a car where wiper control is on the dashboard instead of on a stalk. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?
