Tiling WM Users: How do you have your media player configured?

jcs · 2008-11-23 04:37:09

I've been playing around with xmonad. VLC player(0.9.6-1) insists on taking two windows, even when minimal or integrated. The controller window can be minimized to the system tray which is nice but I've been having trouble lately with vlc since it has no support for vp70 (not vlc's problem but an inconvenience since I unfortunately have files using this codec). I've been using gmplayer for these files but it seems to have difficulty maintaining the original aspect ratio when it's tiled.

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pauldonnelly · 2008-11-23 04:47:09

I usually use mplayer for all my m playing needs. Console version.

elmer_42 · 2008-11-23 05:19:56

When I used dwm, I always used mpd with ncmpcpp for music and VLC+float mode for video.

jwbirdsong · 2008-11-23 05:25:36

+1 for mpd w/ ncmpcpp and vlc floating

thayer · 2008-11-23 07:29:54

ncmpc -- controlled by multimedia keys on the front of my inspiron notebook
mplayer -- configured to float
vlc -- I have to use this occassionally for work stuff, but it's a pain in the ass since they split the UI

mentallaxative · 2008-11-23 07:41:07

mplayer set to float, too.

BabyDoc · 2008-11-23 09:54:01

mpd + ncmpcpp for music
floating mplayer for video

Vintendo · 2008-11-23 10:07:18

mpd + ncmpcpp for music

Tiled mplayer, console version, for video. At least for 16:9 video. I have a widescreen, so 16:10, screen. I have mplayer tiled in a quarter of my screen, so I don't notice the difference in aspect ratio. For other video I have it fullscreen.

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Pnevma · 2008-11-23 11:36:51

pauldonnelly wrote:

I usually use mplayer for all my m playing needs. Console version.

Mhm, this is what I use. The mplayer-nogui-svn package in the AUR is great for this.

find . \( -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.flac" -o -name "*.ogg" -o -name "*.ape" \) -print > playlist.pls

That will make a 'playlist.pls' file of all mp3, flac, ogg, and ape files in the current directory. You can then use something like this to open the .pls files;

urxvt -name Music -e mplayer -loop 0 -shuffle -playlist

This will set the class name to 'Music', this way you can do whatever you want with it... like send it to tag 3 or something. For video files, you can just open them with the regular 'mplayer' and set it to be floating.

It's a great, minimal way to play just about any multimedia file. You may also want to install the 'codecs' package if you go this route.

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robmaloy · 2008-11-23 11:42:25

video: mplayer floating
audio: mpd + hotkeys(mpc)

xcession · 2008-11-23 12:29:36

+1 mplayer

moljac024 · 2008-11-23 15:41:01

You have to float your video player. Unless you have a humongous screen.
Even then, you better float it.
So, video players and image viewers and a handful of other applications have to be floated, which is a pain in the a** if you want to use a tiling WM

jcs · 2008-11-23 16:20:42

Sometimes I'll put on a movie or show while I'm doing other things. If I have it playing in a floating window, I have to manually move it around the other windows I'm working with. It seems to defeat the purpose of a tiling wm.

Mplayer console has the same aspect ratio issues when tiled.

But I just tried smplayer and it seems to suit my needs perfectly. It runs as one tiled window which will maintain the proper aspect ratio regardless of what you do to it.

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skottish · 2008-11-23 16:46:17

jcs wrote:

But I just tried smplayer and it seems to suit my needs perfectly. It runs as one tiled window which will maintain the proper aspect ratio regardless of what you do to it.

Gnome Mplayer is one window also, and the Gecko Mediaplayer plug-in is far superior to the Mplayer plug-in. Gnome Mplayer is kind of a silly title though; It has no Gnome dependencies.

Procyon · 2008-11-23 16:59:41

In a WM with a bar, I sometimes have a problem with mplayer in tiling mode and maximized (so the bar is visible), it will correct the aspect ratio as if the bar is covering the image (but all it covers is a black border) and the image on the left and right is cut off (you can see the window behind it). It puts me off using a WM with a bar.

peets · 2008-11-23 17:03:35

moljac024 wrote:

You have to float your video player. Unless you have a humongous screen.
Even then, you better float it.
So, video players and image viewers and a handful of other applications have to be floated, which is a pain in the a** if you want to use a tiling WM

My WM handles tiled mplayer pretty properly: it scales the video window to fill the whole frame, but respects the aspect ratio (only either length or width is full size). StumpWM.

Odd-rationale · 2008-11-23 22:10:15

mocp and mplayer (cli)

pauldonnelly · 2008-11-23 23:14:55

peets wrote:

moljac024 wrote:
You have to float your video player. Unless you have a humongous screen.
Even then, you better float it.
So, video players and image viewers and a handful of other applications have to be floated, which is a pain in the a** if you want to use a tiling WM
My WM handles tiled mplayer pretty properly: it scales the video window to fill the whole frame, but respects the aspect ratio (only either length or width is full size). StumpWM.

Yeah, when did "tiling WM" come to mean only WMs that work just like dwm?

vinegaroon · 2008-11-24 02:38:29

I use Xmonad
Music:
One console with a "ls music/ | less" where music/ is my music directory,
one console with alsamixer, and one console with mplayer.

Video, console mplayer.

coarseSand · 2008-11-24 03:37:37

Floating mplayer, or I just Fullscreen NoBorders VLC's video window in Xmonad.

elmer_42 · 2008-11-24 09:55:39

This topic has reminded me of one of the things I really liked in wmii. In wmii, you could resize windows manually but leave them tiled. It was great for the times when I wanted to watch a video while browsing the web.

keenerd · 2008-11-24 12:04:09

No one has mentioned SMPlayer, which is surprising. It is a really slick single window UI done in Qt. Best usability of any media player, imho. (My favorite feature is the single click switching of audio and subtitle tracks.)

Using AwesomeWM, I always run SMPlayer tiled. Never needed to configure anything. Aspect ratio never breaks. It is still usable & watchable when tiled at 1/6 of the screen.

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dmz · 2008-11-24 13:52:10

Hm.. why do you have mplayer floating? I mean, there's no GUI or something, you just mplayer mynicevid.avi (or just simply mynicevid.avi, if you're using something nice like zsh), and then press f for fullscreen? I dont really see the point in having the mplayer video output floating, though in every tiling wm I've tried so far there's always preconfigured options for floating apps and there's mplayer, gimp.. etc

Anyways, I use mpd + ncmpcpp for music, mplayer for video, radio, single mp3's, etc.

Mr.Elendig · 2008-11-24 15:16:25

VLC have a know bug that makes it take 2 windows even if you tell it not to. It will probably be fixed in the next version, or you can downgrade.

Anyway, my setup is mplayer for video and moc for musik. I usualy float mplayerand move it around as needed. (I often watch movies while doing other stuff)

yvonney · 2009-02-25 09:13:22

[ mplayer-nogui-svn PLUS smplayer-svn ??? ]

Did I miss something. I'm loving dwm and would love to know:

I've just installed mplayer-nogui-svn

can I install smplayer-svn as well and NOT have conflicts? love to know.

I've had to install qt4.x.x.x anyways ... so may as well have a gui WHILE I'm learning to have cli fun...

hmmm....... sensible or will I get headaches?

thanks for all the great info!

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