On Friday 22 December 2006 22:11, spmirowski wrote: > > 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. > This is a mess, isn't it? It's only about 2 weeks ago that I finally got totem to play my home-made videos, but it broke at the same time as xine. The freshmeat xine is working fine for me now, but totem isn't, and I don't have time to play with it right now. Anne
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