Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Hemmann,, on Wednesday, 2005-11-16 at 16:14:18, you wrote: but xine does it right without the need of editing the conf, so in my humble opinion, xine is better - I am lazy ;) Depends on your keyboard. On a US keyboard, {}/[] are just fine, of course on a German one it will be as unintuitive

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:42:47 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread abhay
On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 5:35 am, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: gmplayer -mplayer itself does refuse to run. Oh, but if you know mplayer so well, maybe you can tell me, how to fast forward (2x, 4x) in (g)mplayer? I do not mean skip forward some seconds, I mean real fast forward? The only

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 09:37, abhay wrote: On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 5:35 am, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: gmplayer -mplayer itself does refuse to run. Oh, but if you know mplayer so well, maybe you can tell me, how to fast forward (2x, 4x) in (g)mplayer? I do not mean skip forward

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 02:15, Nick Rout wrote: Interesting, is this on all files, or just some? Is it the same in gmplayer and mplayer? gmplayer -mplayer itself does refuse to run. Oh, but if you know mplayer so well, maybe you can tell me, how to fast forward (2x, 4x) in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:05:28 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: thanks, but that is pretty un-intuitive. xine uses arrow up/down for the speed... a combination where I do not need to span my fingers over half the keyboard.. But mplayer also jumps forward with mouse wheel up, and backwards

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread abhay
On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 5:31 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: FATAL: Konnte Videofilter (-vf) oder -ausgabetreiber (-vo) nicht initialisieren. I could not make much out of that error message (still need to learn a lot of languages ;) ) but looks like a problem with your video output driver

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:05:28 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: thanks, but that is pretty un-intuitive. xine uses arrow up/down for the speed... a combination where I do not need to span my fingers over half the keyboard.. But

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 15:46, abhay wrote: On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 5:31 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: FATAL: Konnte Videofilter (-vf) oder -ausgabetreiber (-vo) nicht initialisieren. I could not make much out of that error message (still need to learn a lot of languages ;) ) but

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread abhay
On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 8:48 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Andmplayer does indeed honor the aspect-ratio. Sadly, you are forced to have the window in the right ratio (not like xine, where you can have the window in every ratio you like, and xine adds blavk lines where needed). mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:05:28 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: thanks, but that is pretty un-intuitive. xine uses arrow up/down for the speed... a combination where I do not need to span my fingers over half the keyboard.. there is a mechanism to change the keybindings to suit your

[gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Peper
Hello, what's the best video player in your opinion? -- Best Regards, Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread A. R.
Hi, For me it is more about which one of the video players I am able to properly configure. Right now I prefer gxine and kaffeine (xine-lib based). Those two pretty much can play anything. Regards, - AROn 11/15/05, Peper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,what's the best video player in your

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
what's the best video player in your opinion? Kaffeine is great for playing DVDs. I use kaffeine when in KDE. Kplayer is also good. Kplayer can use xine or mplayer as the backend, which is a nice feature. I prefer mplayer with directfb on the console though. Mplayer simply is great! Do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 15:48, Peper wrote: Hello, what's the best video player in your opinion? -- Best Regards, Peper xine with xine-ui mplayer is nice too, but while xine is able to save the correct aspect ratio while resizing, mplayer only has 100%, 200% and fullscreen. (if it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Rout
mplayer without any front ends. mplayer filename the man page is very long but informative. mplayer also somes with the companion mencoder which has a good reputation in the transcoding stakes. xine and vlc also work well, and I have nothing against them except my familiarity with mplayer. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:47:46 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 15 November 2005 15:48, Peper wrote: Hello, what's the best video player in your opinion? -- Best Regards, Peper xine with xine-ui mplayer is nice too, but while xine is able to save the correct aspect

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 00:02, Nick Rout wrote: I am not sure that you are at all correct. With mplayer I can resize a window with my mouse and the aspect is retained (ie i drag the window wider and it also gets taller). There are certainly no restrictions like 100/200% - any size seems

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:20:35 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I see that there is also a switch called -nokeepaspect: -nokeepaspect Do not keep window aspect ratio when resizing windows. Only works with the x11, xv, xmga, xvidix, directx video output drivers. Furthermore under

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 00:37, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:20:35 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I see that there is also a switch called -nokeepaspect: -nokeepaspect Do not keep window aspect ratio when resizing windows. Only works with the x11, xv, xmga,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 00:02, Nick Rout wrote: I am not sure that you are at all correct. With mplayer I can resize a window with my mouse and the aspect is retained (ie i drag the window wider and it also gets taller). There are certainly no

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Rout
Interesting, is this on all files, or just some? Is it the same in gmplayer and mplayer? gmplayer -mplayer itself does refuse to run. Oh, but if you know mplayer so well, maybe you can tell me, how to fast forward (2x, 4x) in (g)mplayer? I do not mean skip forward some seconds,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:50:49 -0800 darren kirby wrote: quoth the Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 00:02, Nick Rout wrote: I am not sure that you are at all correct. With mplayer I can resize a window with my mouse and the aspect is retained (ie i drag the window

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am interested in this discussion. I spent a weekend trying out several players. Of the few I tried, I liked xine-ui best, perhaps, for it's playability. However, ogle, goggles, and kmplayer give the gift of bookmarks. Is there any way to do bookmarks w/ Xine or Mplayer? Mplayer is nice also.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:08:58 +1000 Alan E. Davis wrote: I am interested in this discussion. I spent a weekend trying out several players. Of the few I tried, I liked xine-ui best, perhaps, for it's playability. However, ogle, goggles, and kmplayer give the gift of bookmarks. Is there any way

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Nick Rout: I have the exact same behavior here. All the options seem to imply that keeping the aspect ratio is the default, but it just isn't working like that. All the options in the man page involving 'aspect' describe how to change this default behavior (which isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

2005-11-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
Bookmarks: Set a mark at certain places in a movie that one can return to. Set many. With one of the viewers, one can name the bookmarks. THis is valuable for teaching. Alan On 11/16/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:08:58 +1000Alan E. Davis wrote: I am interested in