One thing that I personally miss and would find very useful is a menu hook for creating and manipulating fxd files. Quite often there are files that for some reason or other don't play back properly unless you add custom parameters. It could be that the aspect ratio is wrong, or that it needs a specific codec to play back. While all of this can be fixed from the command like, those of us who run freevo on dedicated boxes need to log in to the system remotely from another computer and do it from there.

What I suggest is a hook to create an fxd file for all media files in a folder from the directory context menu, and ways in which to change the mplayer-parameters inside those fxd files from a drop-down list. The actual parameter list should be configurable by the user, and ideally also chainable (ie, multiselect will concatenate all your choices into one mplayer-options line). I think this would save a lot of hassle for many of us.

A second suggestion is to add hotkeys to freevo that work in all contexts, including during movie playback, so that a freeze of the SDL gui, Freevo itself, mplayer, what have you, can be solved by a keypress and not by remote logon (again thinking dedicated box here). At least a way to trigger /etc/init.d/freevo restart from the remote would be nice, possibly also a ctr-alt-del event. Not sure how doable these are, but they would be useful methinks.

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Ole


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