From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
I use mplayer is good as a web plugin, however I am often having
problems with it if I use it for much else.
I compile and make xine lib and ui myself, thus I don't have to worry
about rpm problems. I highly recommend building it oneself. I will use
the rpms from the repos if a FC distro is brand new and lib or ui
doesn't compile on it. Currently 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 and 0.99.4 compile
just fine on FC6.
OT: I was using Totem-xine from livna, but the xine-lib was giving me
problems, so I yum installed Totem-xine (resolves lib), then rpm -e the
libs after and it uses the libs I compiled.
Stephen
