Re: [DNG] Lightweight media/video player

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:22:34 -
"dev1fanboy"  wrote:

> One of the better ones for the purpose of keeping pulse and dbus out
> is xine (xine-ui). As far as a media player.. I think it's best to
> have one thing for music and another for video. A good music player
> is cmus which uses ncurses and has playlist support, does not use any
> crappy extra libs, no dbus or pulse. 

Litt dons a tin-foil hat...

I'm thinking that a "music player" is really an assembly of two things:

1) A file to speaker sound converter
2) A playlist handler

Many fine file to speaker sound converters exist. I like mplayer
because it's so controllable from the outside via a fifo. You must use
a different converter for midi files (timidity or whatever).

A playlist handler is a programming 101 assignment enabling you to load
playlists and navigate within them, and while you're at it go backward
and forward in your current song.

I made my own playlist handler out of UMENU, Ruby, and lots of
shellscript type stuff, and I use it regularly. It's nowhere near
perfect, but if you're willing to use Vim to make/maintain your
playlists, it works very well. My system is semi-described in these two
URLs:

http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200801/200801.htm

http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200802/200802.htm

My point is this: If a music player has anything but the most
rudimentary dependencies, those dependencies promote either "pretty",
or stuff outside the core competency of a music player.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/28


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Re: [DNG] Lightweight media/video player

[Mitt Green]

dev1fanboy wrote:


>One of the better ones for the purpose of keeping pulse and dbus out is xine
>(xine-ui).

It is ugly, wants over nine thousooond packages to be installed,
including samba-libs...

>A good music player is cmus which uses ncurses and has playlist support, does
>not use any crappy extra libs, no dbus or pulse.

cmus is cool, though I already use gmusicbrowser.



>mplayer2 has no dbus but does have libpulse0.

mplayer2 is fine, though I have no idea, why it needs many libs
(not so many as other do anyway) it looks minimalistic.
Probably will stick with it, thanks. I can't live without
libpulse0 anyway now, mostly because of
games (0 A.D., UT, RedEclipse etc., they all need it).




// Mitt
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[DNG] Lightweight media/video player

[Mitt Green]

Hi,

As I recently have been playing with window managers,
mostly FVWM, i3 and now it's Openbox, to latter I switched
from Xfce because I have decided not to go with D-Bus,
I am now in need to find a lightweight media or, precisely,
video player.

In Xfce I had been using Parole, because it's lightweight,
but it, as well as other Xfce components, depends on D-Bus
via Xfconf.

All these xmms2, mplayer, smplayer pull about 50 additional
packages, which is huge, comparing to parole, that wants to
install just ten more.

By lightweight I mean:
- GTK+2 or even CLI interface (GTK+3 is less favoured);
- not a lot of dependencies (why do I need to install
samba-libs to decode videos, I don't know);
- it would be great if a player is already compiled in .deb and
is in repos/PPA/official site.

Thank you all,


Have a good one,
//  Mitt
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Re: [DNG] Lightweight media/video player

[dev1fanboy]

One of the better ones for the purpose of keeping pulse and dbus out is xine 
(xine-ui). As far as a media player.. I think it's best to have one thing for 
music and another for video. A good music player is cmus which uses ncurses and 
has playlist support, does not use any crappy extra libs, no dbus or pulse. 

For most media players you can just expect them to pretty much link into every 
audio plugin and even libsdl or gstreamer eventhough the former makes that 
useless. 

mplayer2 has no dbus but does have libpulse0.

On Monday, January 25, 2016 6:04 PM, Mitt Green  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I recently have been playing with window managers,
> mostly FVWM, i3 and now it's Openbox, to latter I switched
> from Xfce because I have decided not to go with D-Bus,
> I am now in need to find a lightweight media or, precisely,
> video player.
> 
> In Xfce I had been using Parole, because it's lightweight,
> but it, as well as other Xfce components, depends on D-Bus
> via Xfconf.
> 
> All these xmms2, mplayer, smplayer pull about 50 additional
> packages, which is huge, comparing to parole, that wants to
> install just ten more.
> 
> By lightweight I mean:
> - GTK+2 or even CLI interface (GTK+3 is less favoured);
> - not a lot of dependencies (why do I need to install
> samba-libs to decode videos, I don't know);
> - it would be great if a player is already compiled in .deb and
> is in repos/PPA/official site.
> 
> Thank you all,
> 
> 
> Have a good one,
> //  Mitt
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Re: [DNG] Lightweight media/video player

[dev1fanboy]

Also forgot to mention cdcd can play music direct from a cd. One tool one job 
and all that, I also noted there are some more audio video/players around but 
some of them are targetted to a specific purpose, like smpeg-gtv for playing 
mpegs.

On Monday, January 25, 2016 6:04 PM, Mitt Green  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I recently have been playing with window managers,
> mostly FVWM, i3 and now it's Openbox, to latter I switched
> from Xfce because I have decided not to go with D-Bus,
> I am now in need to find a lightweight media or, precisely,
> video player.
> 
> In Xfce I had been using Parole, because it's lightweight,
> but it, as well as other Xfce components, depends on D-Bus
> via Xfconf.
> 
> All these xmms2, mplayer, smplayer pull about 50 additional
> packages, which is huge, comparing to parole, that wants to
> install just ten more.
> 
> By lightweight I mean:
> - GTK+2 or even CLI interface (GTK+3 is less favoured);
> - not a lot of dependencies (why do I need to install
> samba-libs to decode videos, I don't know);
> - it would be great if a player is already compiled in .deb and
> is in repos/PPA/official site.
> 
> Thank you all,
> 
> 
> Have a good one,
> //  Mitt
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Re: [DNG] Lightweight media/video player

[Hughe Chung]

I started using mpv as media player instead vlc. vlc has become unstable 
often producing segmentation fault, skipping frames. The package names 
is mpv.


It has tiny package size less than 1.5 MB.

$ mpv --version
mpv 0.8.3 (C) 2000-2015 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on Tue Mar 17 06:56:30 UTC 2015
ffmpeg library versions:
   libavutil   54.20.100
   libavcodec  56.26.100
   libavformat 56.25.101
   libswscale  3.1.101
   libavfilter 5.11.102
   libswresample   1.1.100

The user can modify or add key bindings using the configuration file 
~/.config/mpv/input.conf


I downloaded input.conf file from
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpv-player/mpv/master/etc/input.conf

I added two key bindings to reduce the window size like below, moved the 
input.conf file to ~/.config/mpv/ directory.


#5 add gamma -1
#6 add gamma 1
#7 add saturation -1
#8 add saturation 1
Alt+0 set window-scale 0.5
Alt+1 set window-scale 0.75
#Alt+2 set window-scale 2.0


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