I had the same problem. I ended up rebinding the mplayer keys using the mplayer input.conf file to match the freevo bindings. This ways, the keys always work the same regardless of whether or not a video is playing.
Jim "Pferdekaemper, Thorsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi, > I have come across a problem I could not track down yet. It seems like mplayer does not really run in slave mode when playing movies, bit it does when playing music. > > Normally when playing a movie with freevo, I could use the "+" and "-" keys on the numpad to increase or decrease the volume. Since a few days, I have to press "*" and "/" to do so. When playing music, "+" and "-" works fine. > It just seems that (when playing movies) mplayer catches the keyboard commands directly instead of freevo catching them and sending the commands to mplayer. (This is what I assume now, I am not sure if my theories are correct.) > I have switched on the debug output for mplayer. The command line being called contains "-slave". > (I have installed freevo a week ago using the debian package.) > > In case nobody knows about this problem: Could someone point me in the right direction to track down this problem? > > Kind regards, > Thorsten > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn