On Friday 22 December 2006 19:44, Paul Smith wrote: > On 12/22/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Feeling fed-up with xine being broken since the updates, and not really > > having time to bother fixing it at the moment I decided to try mplayer. > > I use xine mainly for checking my home-made recordings, so the tools I > > most need are the ability to step through the chapters and take a > > snapshot of the title screen for use on the case. I can't manage to do > > either of these on mplayer, and wonder whether it is the app or my > > ineptitude. > > > > Stepping through seems to take me just 10 seconds along the time-line - > > rather slow for a long production. I have 5-minute-ish chapters made, > > and want to jump along them. I can't find any snapshot tool, and using > > ksnapshot seems to result in either a blank blue screen or a jig-saw > > series of part-screens, overwriting previously saved unrelated pngs. > > I've never seen behaviour like this before. Outside of mplayer ksnapshot > > behaves perfectly. > > > > I guess I'll have to fix xine tomorrow - but is mplayer really so lame? > > Anne, > > It is easy and quick to fix xine: see the thread at: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=116653178122843&w=2 > Hi, Paul. Yes, I know, I read the thread, but it's yet another hassle that I could do without right now. I'm a little peeved that a 'yum update' on Wednesday broke xine, and here we are, going into a holiday weekend without it being fixed. OK, rant over. I'll change the repo settings in the morning and get it sorted. Thanks for answering. Anne
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