Re: gmplayer - no good (was Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?)
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:45:39AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:20:02 +1300
> Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:43AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:26 +0200
> > > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > [..]
> > > > video player:
> > >
> > > [G]mplayer
> >
> > You know gmplayer is broken, right? Compare 'top' with both for the same
> > movie. Note the CPU usage.
>
> On a couple of movies I had lying around, I saw several percent higher
> CPU utilization for gmplayer. i.e. something like 9 - 11% for mplayer,
> and 12 - 14% for gmplayer. I suppose that that would be a reason to
How long did you watch it for? On the box where I noticed the anomaly,
it was sitting at 99% whereas "mplayer <samemovie>" sat at around 14%. A
google search confirmed that gmplayer was the cause. There are other GUI
frontends but I've never looked at them.
> use mplayer, assuming that all the controls are the same.
You can map commands to keys in your mplayer rc file, but I tend to just
use '.' or 'p' for pause, 'f' for full screen, and 'q' for quit.
--
Chris.
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