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Dale wrote:Much snipped
My next question. Given mplayer is getting old and rotting on the vine
so to speak, anyone know if one can get rid of it completely? Right
now, Devedeng requires it and Smplayer does to, even tho I have it set
to use mpv now. I found a couple other packages but I may can do
without them. I'm just wondering how much longer mplayer is going to
last before packages that must have mplayer is going to be tree cleaned >because they no longer work.Â
Thanks to all for the help. We were all hammering at it for sure.Â
Dale
:-)Â :-)Â
I do wish mpv had a volume control for audio tho.
One thing I really like about Smplayer, the
ability to add videos to the playlist and not alter what is currently playing.
Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 23 February 2025 07:53:28 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
I do wish mpv had a volume control for audio tho.It does. From the fine manual:
/ and *
Decrease/increase volume.
Also, on the GUI, if you scroll with your mouse up or down you alter the audio
volume.
The keyboard option does work. I didn't know that. I have a speaker
icon that I can click on to mute/unmute but that's it. I'd like to have
a control that I can click on and adjust, or better yet, just show up
all the time. When I scroll the mouse wheel, it moves forward or backward. I prefer that really. I'm bad to skip forward through bits I don't want to watch. The arrow keys work but the mouse button is faster
for me.Â
I have to admit, I keep saying I want to build playlist files for mpv, smplayer or any other player, and then instead of selecting a large list
of videos, I just click on the playlist file, right click and open with preferred player would be a good option too if one file would work with
any player.
[…]
I have some videos that have parts in a foreign language.Â
For those, I have the subtitle files. If I go to a directory and just
do a CTRL + A and try to open with Smplayer, the subtitle file makes it
not want to open because it is not a video file. The file types are
mixed.
That file, because it has the same name as the video, is buried
in there, somewhere. Then when I added Franks checksum tool, it adds a
file to but I named it so that it will always be at the top. I do a
CTRL + A then click that file while holding the CTRL key to deselect
it. Still, it's a extra step. Having a playlist file would avoid all
of that.Â
Another reason I haven't done this, I have well north of 600 directories
that I need to create playlists for. It would take a while but I could create them as I go to them to watch the videos. I just need to find
out how this is done. I'm thinking just doing a ls and piping it to a
file should work.
I may have to edit out any subtitle files but other than that, might
work. Then again, there may be some tool that does this already.Â
[…]
One of these days. At least now I can play my videos and have a clean emerge after updating. ;-) I wonder, does Frank have a nifty script
for creating playlist files????/Â ROFLÂ
Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 23 February 2025 07:53:28 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
I do wish mpv had a volume control for audio tho.
It does. From the fine manual:
/ and *
Decrease/increase volume.
Also, on the GUI, if you scroll with your mouse up or down you alter the audio volume.
The keyboard option does work. I didn't know that. I have a speaker
icon that I can click on to mute/unmute but that's it. I'd like to have
a control that I can click on and adjust, or better yet, just show up
all the time. When I scroll the mouse wheel, it moves forward or
backward. I prefer that really. I'm bad to skip forward through bits I don't want to watch. The arrow keys work but the mouse button is faster
for me.
One thing I really like about Smplayer, the
ability to add videos to the playlist and not alter what is currently
playing.
I think the only way to add a playlist to mpv is by creating a txt file with a list of videos, one video per line, save it as <list_name>.m3u and then drag 'n drop it into the mpv window, or call it with mpv in a terminal:
mpv <list_name>.m3u
You can experiment to see if adding a new m3u list will overwrite the old one, or stop what is currently playing - I haven't tried this yet. ;-)
On 2025-02-20, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess
they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded.
I'm getting some help off list from another Michael. O_O He suggested several USE flag changes. Some I never heard of.
Ask ffmpeg what's in the file. Then you'll _know_ what encoder(s)
were used and what USE flags you need.
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2025-02-21, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:[…]
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:So are you trying to figure out why you can't play those .mkv files,
Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM -0000 schrieb Grant Edwards:[…]
I enabled some USE flags and tried to recompile with those. It
failed on some, again. I'm giving it another go now.Â
or just trying to get mplayer to build? I'll once again point out
that mplayer seems to by dying (hasn't had a new version released in 3 years). Most users seem to have moved to mpv.
Well, Micheal helped me with USE flags. I needed some that I had no
idea about. Some related to hardware I have, or think I have since they
may be to old. Some related to Vulkan. Anyway, after a lot of fiddling with USE flags, I still can't get gpac and mplayer to rebuild.