Mplayer - GTK2

rehcra · 2004-10-18 20:07:48

phrakture wrote:

currently, I use xine do to the much better UI
when the official gtk2 switch happens, I may convert.... but I'm satisfied with xine right now

I'd use xine, but...
The problem are the frontends. I'd like to have a gtk2 frontend, however unfortunately gxine is unmaintained and totem depends on gnome.
Default xine-ui is plain ugly!

phrakture · 2004-10-18 21:08:41

I like the xine-ui... use the skin downloader and grab the one with the black background....

and hey, at least it looks batter than gmplayer's menus (I don't use the controls, I use the right-click menus for all interaction... this is why I like xine much better

rehcra · 2004-10-18 21:10:16

xine-ui skjins are fine, but you still have this ugly xine-ui menus...

punkrockguy318 · 2004-10-18 22:01:53

Hmm... Mplayer still sucks even after it's gtk2... I don't really like xine-ui either... totem is nice.. but look at this:

Targets: hal-0.2.97-2 libgsf-1.9.1-1 gnome-desktop-2.8.0-1 nautilus-2.8.1-1
         nautilus-cd-burner-2.8.1-1 libdvdcss-1.2.8-1 libdvdread-0.9.4-2
         libdvdnav-0.1.9-2 faac-1.24-1 faad2-2.0-5 hermes-1.3.3-1
         libmikmod-3.1.11-1 gtk-1.2.10-4 mjpegtools-1.6.2-1 gst-plugins-0.8.5-1
         totem-0.99.19-2

Total Package Size:   11.5 MB

Bah.... GXine would be nice if it was actually maintained... I guess they all suck, but the least sucky is gmplayer. Too bad amarok doesn't support video!

rehcra · 2004-10-18 22:16:47

Maybe gstreamer is going to be a solution.
However, I'm afraid they will go in a direction of being dependant on gnome (right now gstreamer doesn't support everything without gnome; arch package depends on gnome .

contrasutra · 2004-10-18 23:57:30

punkrockguy318 wrote:

Hmm... Mplayer still sucks even after it's gtk2... I don't really like xine-ui either... totem is nice.. but look at this:
Targets: hal-0.2.97-2 libgsf-1.9.1-1 gnome-desktop-2.8.0-1 nautilus-2.8.1-1
         nautilus-cd-burner-2.8.1-1 libdvdcss-1.2.8-1 libdvdread-0.9.4-2
         libdvdnav-0.1.9-2 faac-1.24-1 faad2-2.0-5 hermes-1.3.3-1
         libmikmod-3.1.11-1 gtk-1.2.10-4 mjpegtools-1.6.2-1 gst-plugins-0.8.5-1
         totem-0.99.19-2

Total Package Size:   11.5 MB
Bah.... GXine would be nice if it was actually maintained... I guess they all suck, but the least sucky is gmplayer. Too bad amarok doesn't support video!

Oh god, not 11MB! What are you running, a 3GB hard drive?

aCoder · 2004-10-19 01:30:32

Maybe he's got one of those trusty old 300MB ones. (Hey, mine still works!)

celeron2002 · 2004-10-19 02:14:14

xine is good but its look is very ugly, however mplayer is good and has a very nice look!

IMHO, i prefer mplayer against gtk1

rehcra · 2004-10-19 06:02:22

contrasutra wrote:

Oh god, not 11MB! What are you running, a 3GB hard drive?

It may not apply to you, but some people (including me) don't want to have junk on their harddrive no matter how less space it takes. I don't want gnome parts to lay around. Please, do not impose on anybody installing this 11MB.

Btw seems KDE has nice frontend to mplayer (KMPlayer). This is why I requested (in mplayer gtk2 thread) to split gmplayer to other package - I don't want to have junk I never use.

rehcra · 2004-10-19 06:13:19

One thing I don't like about xine: I takes HUGE amounts of memory.
I typed "grep Data /proc/`pidof xine`/status" and got 160868 kB.
I typed "grep Data /proc/`pidof gmplayer`/status" and got 7380 kB.

dp · 2004-10-19 08:32:04

punkrockguy318 wrote:

...Too bad amarok doesn't support video!...

there is a feature request for amarok to use mplayer as backend i posted to http://bugs.kde.org/

unfortunately, the http://bugs.kde.org/ is down now (Too many connections at globals.pl line 140.), so i cannot give you the link :-(

also the authors of amarok do not seem to like the idea to add video playing to amarok :-(

rehcra · 2004-10-19 08:59:41

Seems like kaffeine is going to be my favourite media player...
It uses xine-lib and kde.

thegnu · 2004-10-28 00:31:40

This is off-topic, but while reading this thread I think I chose sides in the debate by who had the cutest avatar.

rehcra · 2004-11-01 05:19:44

Most avatars have changed recently; could you update your post?

thegnu · 2004-11-01 15:01:05

rehcra wrote:

Most avatars have changed recently; could you update your post?

It's a much closer race now, but I have to say I'm very fond of apes. dp it is!

YAY!

dp · 2004-11-01 15:14:13

thegnu wrote:

rehcra wrote:
Most avatars have changed recently; could you update your post?
It's a much closer race now, but I have to say I'm very fond of apes. dp it is!
YAY!

wow, cool, thanx man!

swim · 2005-03-14 05:55:51

I cant for the life of me get this package to build...
does the pkgbuild need to be updated?

Snowman · 2005-03-14 07:39:59

swim wrote:

I cant for the life of me get this package to build...
does the pkgbuild need to be updated?

What error do you get?
EDIT: Maybe the error is in the cut and paste. Two lines are wrapped:
1. the source line
2. the line that starts with mv $startdir/src/fonts ...

zeppelin · 2005-03-14 09:49:33

Snowman, why don't you provide a mplayer-gtk2 pkg until arch does it?

punkrockguy318 · 2005-03-14 11:36:22

zeppelin wrote:

Snowman, why don't you provide a mplayer-gtk2 pkg until arch does it?

It's provided in my TUR.

xerxes2 · 2005-03-14 17:50:54

I wrote a frontend for mplayer a while back, there was some nasty memoryleaks in it but I think it should be allright now, It's running mplayer in slavemode like mplayer-plugin so it's written in pure Python,

pkgname=lazy-player
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A simple PyGTK frontend for mplayer."
url=""
depends=("pygtk" "mplayer")
source=("http://xerxes2.1go.dk/lazy-player-0.1.tar.gz")
md5sums=("63c4411e8fd5920f34ce87b573f82b81")

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/lazy_player
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/lazy-player
  install -m 755 lazy-player $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
  install -m 755 settings.py $startdir/pkg/usr/share/lazy-player
  install -m 755 gtk_main.py $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/lazy_player
  install -m 755 fileselect.py $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/lazy_player
  install -m 755 __init__.py $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/lazy_player
 }

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