From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 11:18:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685CF16A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:18:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B78F43D5D for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:18:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j16BISGf002348 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:18:28 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j16BIRjM002346; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:18:27 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:18:27 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20050206111827.GR8619@alzatex.com> References: <20050205065704.GJ8619@alzatex.com> <20050205174638.GA637@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050205174638.GA637@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: "Loren M. Lang" cc: Gert Cuykens cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: media players X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:18:33 -0000 On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:46:38AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:57:04PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:15:18PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > I am looking for a media player that supports the oss sound driver, > > > easy to install codex, and uses the gtk2 libs ? > > > > xine is by far my favorite media app and has the best support for > > playing dvds with menus. It can use win32 codecs pretty well too. It > > doesn't use gtk2, but still has a very nice gui. mplayer is also pretty > > good, it can play dvds, but no real menu support that I've seen and > > win32 codecs also work. It has a gtk2 gui, but I think it's horrible. > > I use just it's plain window interface and just use keyboard shortcuts > > to control it. > > > > Can you (or anyone!) clue me in on how xine works? > Apps like RealPlayer just-work{TM}; mplayer has no > Quit button; xine looks lke something from Pluto. > > (Does xine work with links? netscapr7? ) Just hit q in mplayer to quit. Plain old mplayer doesn't have any kind of gui besides the video window and is completely controlled through the keyboard and/or command-line options. There is a gui version called gmplayer, but I really don't like it. It's just too buggy. xine works like pretty much any other video player program, but some of the skins I think are harder to identify the buttons. My favorite skin is xinetic, which is usually the default. Try man xine and man mplayer for more info. > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C