Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.
Matt Connell wrote: > On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 22:16 -0500, Dale wrote: >> It doesn't seem to have a preferences thing that I can find. >> You know where they hide that thing? > mpv is wholly configuration file based, fortunately or unfortunately. > Not the easiest bar to reach, but the man page is extremely well > detailed. > > What I wanted to get rid of mostly was the progress bar when I hit left or right arrow. It was only there for a second but I just look at the bottom if I need to know where I am. In case someone else runs up on this thread, this is how to get rid of it, or set it to something else. In mpv.conf, located in /etc/mpv/ here, add this line. --osd-on-seek=no >From the man page: --osd-on-seek= Set what is displayed on the OSD during seeks. The default is bar. It defaults to bar which annoys me. Set to no, when you seek, it displays nothing, just moves the video. I'm not sure what msg does. Maybe it adds flavor or something. LOL I did test multiple instances, it opens at least three with no problems. Now to get rid of the caption thing. The man page comes to the rescue again. Added this to mpv.conf as well. --sub-create-cc-track=no >From man page: --sub-create-cc-track= For every video stream, create a closed captions track (default: no). The only purpose is to make the track available for selection at the start of playback, instead of creating it lazily. This applies only to ATSC A53 Part 4 Closed Captions (displayed by mpv as subtitle tracks using the codec eia_608). The CC track is marked "default" and selected according to the normal subtitle track selection rules. You can then use --sid to explicitly select the correct track too. If the video stream contains no closed captions, or if no video is being decoded, the CC track will remain empty and will not show any text. It says it defaults to no but it appears something changed somewhere. It showed captions by default but setting to no cut them off. I assume this doesn't work if they are coded into the video itself tho. Sometimes people do it that way instead of having it a separate track thingy. Also, I put both options on ONE line in the config file. Having it on two separate lines may work but it certainly works with both on the same line. Also, there is a line in there for youtube-dl that is on its own line. I assume those are two different things. Thanks Matt for pointing me in this direction. As it is, this might be a better player for me than QMPlay2 is. This works as good as QMPlay2 and it closes at the end. I miss gnome-player tho. Silly old thing gave me a lot of years of good use. :/ Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.
On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 22:16 -0500, Dale wrote: > It doesn't seem to have a preferences thing that I can find. > You know where they hide that thing? mpv is wholly configuration file based, fortunately or unfortunately. Not the easiest bar to reach, but the man page is extremely well detailed.
[gentoo-user] rsync unexpected error code 225 at rysnc.c
My old computer is giving me an error code during rsync: rsync unexpected error code 225 at rysnc.c after that the network to that PC stop responding, can not even ping it. -- Thelma
Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.
Matt Connell wrote: > On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 09:02 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Gnome-player is about dead. It got removed from the tree ages ago >> but >> until a recent upgrade, it still worked. I been using QMPlay2 on >> videos >> that doesn't have the right codec thingy for Gnome-player. So, I'm >> kinda used to QMPlay2, except it doesn't close at the end of the >> video. >> Anyway, I went into settings and made sure to uncheck the box for >> only >> allowing a single instance. That should allow multiple instances of >> QMPlay2 but it doesn't. If I click on a video file and QMPlay2 is >> open >> anywhere else, it starts playing where ever it was open, not even >> where >> I am at the moment. It's bad enough I lose my place in another video >> but I have to go look through a dozen or so desktops to find out >> where >> it is playing. >> > 100% _not_ what you asked, and you're probably tired of *this* > question, but have you tried media-video/mpv? mpv will play anything > imaginable, it closes when the video ends, handles multiple instances > without any touching, etc. > > I've tried tons of different ones and QMPlay2 is the one I settled on. I didn't realize it had this issue of only one instance, maybe it didn't have this problem at the time, and the only thing I didn't like, it not closing at the end. Otherwise, it worked as I wanted out of the box really. I just tried mpv again. I can't find the menu bar so I can adjust some things. It doesn't seem to have a preferences thing that I can find. You know where they hide that thing? Usually ctrl M I think makes the menu bar appear but didn't work here. It does look ok. It plays the videos I tried it on at least. After all, most every player out there is just a front end to mpv or ffmpeg type software anyway. I didn't test multiple instance yet tho. Sort of ran into the no menu thing. lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.
On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 09:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Gnome-player is about dead. It got removed from the tree ages ago > but > until a recent upgrade, it still worked. I been using QMPlay2 on > videos > that doesn't have the right codec thingy for Gnome-player. So, I'm > kinda used to QMPlay2, except it doesn't close at the end of the > video. > Anyway, I went into settings and made sure to uncheck the box for > only > allowing a single instance. That should allow multiple instances of > QMPlay2 but it doesn't. If I click on a video file and QMPlay2 is > open > anywhere else, it starts playing where ever it was open, not even > where > I am at the moment. It's bad enough I lose my place in another video > but I have to go look through a dozen or so desktops to find out > where > it is playing. > 100% _not_ what you asked, and you're probably tired of *this* question, but have you tried media-video/mpv? mpv will play anything imaginable, it closes when the video ends, handles multiple instances without any touching, etc.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user
Hi Philip,
My user is in 'tty wheel usb input video' (among others).
that shoud suffice.
You need to use '-keeptty' for xinit and preselect a TTY. For myself I
have put this into my bashrc and it works quite well:
xinit ()
{
local VT;
local DISPLAY;
VT=vt$(tty | sed 's/.*tty//');
DISPLAY=:$(pgrep -cf 'X.*keeptty.*vt');
/usr/bin/xinit -- $DISPLAY -keeptty -wr $VT
}
Cheers
Björn
