Calling mplayer users

[spmirowski]

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> From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>
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> Feeling fed-up with xine being broken since the updates, and not really having 
> time to bother fixing it at the moment I decided to try mplayer.  I use xine 
> mainly for checking my home-made recordings, so the tools I most need are the 
> ability to step through the chapters and take a snapshot of the title screen 
> for use on the case.  I can't manage to do either of these on mplayer, and 
> wonder whether it is the app or my ineptitude.
>
> Stepping through seems to take me just 10 seconds along the time-line - rather 
> slow for a long production.  I have 5-minute-ish chapters made, and want to 
> jump along them.  I can't find any snapshot tool, and using ksnapshot seems 
> to result in either a blank blue screen or a jig-saw series of part-screens, 
> overwriting previously saved unrelated pngs.  I've never seen behaviour like 
> this before.  Outside of mplayer ksnapshot behaves perfectly.
>
> I guess I'll have to fix xine tomorrow - but is mplayer really so lame?
>
> Anne

I use mplayer is good as a web plugin, however I am often having 
problems with it if I use it for much else.

I compile and make xine lib and ui myself, thus I don't have to worry 
about rpm problems.  I highly recommend building it oneself.  I will use 
the rpms from the repos if a FC distro is brand new and lib or ui 
doesn't compile on it.  Currently 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 and 0.99.4 compile 
just fine on FC6.

OT: I was using Totem-xine from livna, but the xine-lib was giving me 
problems, so I yum installed Totem-xine (resolves lib), then rpm -e the 
libs after and it uses the libs I compiled.

Stephen