On 22/12/06, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/22/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I guess I'll have to fix xine tomorrow - but is mplayer really so lame? > > That sounds like a symptom of mplayer using one of the video modes > that allows it to display directly to the framebuffer, bypassing most > of X. Since the image isn't "really" on the display, ksnapshot can't > see it. Among the 3,247,928 possible command line options to mplayer, > I'm pretty sure one of 'em says "Hey render video in an x11 window", > at which point ksnapshot should be able to see it (but mplayer performance > might not be as good). > > P.S. I find the interface to mplayer to be totally insane, but mplayer > itself seems to be the only linux tool that plays every video I've ever > thrown at it, so I wouldn't call it lame, just horribly confusing :-). Mplayer has got guis: kplayer is one of them.
I think that Gplayer is released by the same folks wo wrote mplayer. I use it, and I love it to death. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/html_email.html http://dotancohen.com/eng/movies.php
