On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 02:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > That's why you use the CLI. Everything you could want to do is quite > > easily accessible from the keyboard. Not to mention that if you know the > > CLI commands, you can use mplayer from a regular old console without X > > even installed on the machine. > > True, but when I'm sorting a big directory of media, I find it easier > to go with konqueror then have to switch between programs. No big > deal, though. > > I tried kplayer, I'm not sure it does anything other than change X's > resulotion when you press play. Nor am I entirely sure why it does > that to begin with. > > - -- > .''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.ca> > : :' : proud Debian admin and user > `. `'` > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+8q6CJ5vLSqVpK2kRAo0sAJ9Xxc+0T0+0RcEVgi/c2UdbT9SO+ACfUa4E > Ye3tl9kKZ+0A/1K7upR9rUc= > =fd6I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I have mplayer as my default video player under Gnome, having set it with the parameters "-quiet -framedrop", and I can watch pretty well any video with one click. I also have numerous Internet feeds sitting as icons on the desktop that with one click there, mplayer starts up and shows as a window. On Gnome, if you don't use -quiet, the system information that MPlayer spews ends up in the gnome-error file, which for a live feed running for several hours can become HUGE. The same thing would likely happen with KDE, but I'm not familiar with which file it would go to. I remember, years ago, suggesting to what was then Progressive Networks that they should aim toward being able to set desktop icons that with one click launched a player with an Internet feed - they didn't pursue that, and mplayer now does that job quite nicely. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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