ralph wrote: > Hi David, > > > Paul wrote: > > > Seems like the right swiss army knife to be using these days would > > > be mplayer, which appears to be available in most places, and which > > > has never failed to play any type of video I've given it. > > > > I like it. How about ffplay as a fallback? > > As George pointed out, mpv(1) is popular. I switched to it from > mplayer(1).
Thanks for the tip. > > There are so many choices; couldn't we punt to xdg-open(1) for > ‘mhshow-show-image’ which is the fallback if a subtype-specific entry > isn't found? The current practice of pushing a GIF or JPEG through Agreed -- xdg-open seems to do a good job, at least as a fallback. I just tried it on images (ImageViewer), videos (mplayer), audio (vlc), pdf (foxit). I don't recall configuring it, but it might have picked up on my mplayer preference somewhere. But they're all reasonable choices. (Although some of them (foxit) use stdout console as their personal dumping ground for development logs, making command line use... ugly, at best.) > BTW, feh(1) is nice for images, and llpp(1) for PDFs. The latter uses > the same fast library as the mupdf(1) viewer but has a nicer, > less(1)-like, UI. As long as we're recommending: my mh mail is delivered on a home server, which I access via ssh. There's a huge difference in performance between various X11 image viewers when run in that environment. xv is abysmal, for instance -- it takes forever to get going. At the other end of the spectrum is "viewnior" (where do names come from, these days?), which is so fast it might as well be running locally. (I'm not sure it's much good for anything but simple viewing, but it's great for that.) paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 26.6 degrees)
