Hmm, i explored some settings in the different media-players and found post-processing was disabled by default. Adjusting most of the colour variables (hue, brightness etc) with the mouse wheel was odd, rolling the mouse wheel forwards decreased the value while rolling it backwards increased the value in almost all cases. I found i was able to set all except VLC to a good volume level for me but VLC kept forgetting what i had set it to. Xine was the only media-player that allowed me to configure my mouse wheel to adjust the volume but then it wouldn't change its function while the arrow was hovering over a different control, such as the timeline. I can't imagine many people switching to and remaining with Linux for long as a desktop machine while our media- players are so far behind Windows.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with an ati graphics card and tried Xine GXine MPlayer VLC Player XfMedia but none of them came close to even poor Windows players in terms of user-configurablity. A shame because each of them seems like an excellent work and once tweaked seems to be more capable than many of the best of Windows. Also linux is much more pleasurable to work with, particularly because of the higher quality of packages and lack of paranoia at higher levels. Ubuntu is a good name for a linux distro but that feeling of freedom is prevalent in all the distros i have tried. Thanks all and happy christmas :) -- Default video playback settings are bad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193791 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
