On Wednesday 16 November 2005 16:51, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:14:18 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > mplayer also allows you to redefine all of these in its config file.
> > > You don't have to worry about it being intuitive when you get to
> > > choose the key bindings.
> >
> > but xine does it right without the need of editing the conf, so in my
> > humble opinion, xine is better - I am lazy ;)
>
> No, you just used xine first, so its controls appeared more "intuitive"
> to you. If you'd got used to mplayer's controls first, you'd have the
> same complaint about xine.
>
> Very little about computer user interfaces is truly intuitive, it's just
> a matter of what you are used to.
I have tried it - and the mplayer controlls suck. {} makes the film, slower,
faster, but not +/- 100% like xine, one klick, one doubling. No, it does +/-
some percent, and if you hold the key for the tenth of a second to long,
you'll never find back to normal speed.
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