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krack

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Registered: 2014-10-12

Posts: 4

How to get gnome-mplayer to remember playback location after quit

Hello.

I used to use gnome-mplayer on ubuntu/kubuntu before switching to arch and really liked the resume playback feature it has for whenever you start the video again after quiting/crashing/etc.

How do I get this feature to work again on arch? I've been up and down the preferences but could not find it, also I've searched this forum and googled it but still could not find it. (maybe my google skills need polishing?)
Can someone tell me what changed or what did I not do to lose this feature?

Here's some info:
I'm using arch with latest updates, DE is KDE:
$ pacman -Q gnome-mplayer
   gnome-mplayer 1.0.9-1
$ uname -a
   Linux wifi_user 3.16.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 17 21:54:13 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

P.S. If you are wondering why it says wifi_user as host, it was set automatically by something and I cannot change it back to localhost, I've tried...but it resets every time afterwards.

graysky

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Re: How to get gnome-mplayer to remember playback location after quit

Dunno about gnome-mplayer, but the regular mplayer works great with mplayer-resumer in the AUR.  Been using it for this purpose for over a decade

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krack

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Registered: 2014-10-12

Posts: 4

Re: How to get gnome-mplayer to remember playback location after quit

Thanks, I'll try it !

But I hope someone could tell me why we don't have the same feature in standard gnome-mplayer and why need a wrapper from AUR.

krack

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Registered: 2014-10-12

Posts: 4

Re: How to get gnome-mplayer to remember playback location after quit

So i cant use mplayer-resumer, it doesnt work if i specify it from gnome-mplayer as "mplayer" executable, videos fail--sound but no video...

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: How to get gnome-mplayer to remember playback location after quit

https://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer … ail?id=681 implies there's an option in the preferences.

I tried gnome-mplayer in Ubuntu, it asks me whether to resume files, but I cannot see any menu/preferences ;-)

If you're using KDE, perhaps you should look into using smplayer (my favourite wherever). mpv also saves the position if you quit it via Q or somesuch. Perhaps, just perhaps, having mplayer installed instead of mplayer2 (or vice versa) makes some difference in this regard.

krack

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Registered: 2014-10-12

Posts: 4

Re: How to get gnome-mplayer to remember playback location after quit

I checked it out and it turns out that option exists, and its set to "Always ask" but it never does, and never resumes...I've added a comment for the issue you found, hopefully someone there could take a look.