Multi Media Programs

[Thomas Stivers]

Yeah, I noticed that myself. I think I found the info in the documentation
that came with the source. I am actually using version 0.59s and somewhere
it mensions the functions of the control keys.

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot one other thing. The man page for my version makes no
> mention of the interactive commands. I did find mention of --control in
> the program help but the manpage doesn't contain the word control.
>
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Thomas Stivers wrote:
>
> > You can gett some of the functionality you want from mpg123. Using the
> > --control command line option lets you use f to go forward, b to go back,
> > "," to rewind, "." to fastforward, q to quit, s to stop, and p to pause.
> > It also has a --shuffle and --random option. If you read the mpg123 man
> > page you can see that it does a lot. For all your other stuff you will
> > need to check out alsa. I am still trying to get alsa working here, so I
> > can't help you too much with it. Good luck.
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:
> >
> > > I just set up a linux box and got the basic sound support working with my
> > > SB AWE32 sound card.  At least I can play wav and mp3 files with play and
> > > mpg123.  My question is how can I get some of the functionality I have
> > > with programs like winamp where one can skip around within a file and skip
> > > back and forth between files being played? I do realize these are
> > > command-line programs but I had hoped for a bit more control while the
> > > program is running.  I haven't looked at amp or freeamp yet; perhaps they
> > > offer this? Also, what are some good mixer programs out there?
> > > Surprisingly, I did not see the snd-utilities with slackware 8.0 and none
> > > of the programs offered with basic slackware seemed to include a
> > > mixer/volume control for the sound card. I have seen such things in the
> > > past. Maybe I need to go out and find some separate utilities and install
> > > them?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any ideas.  I'm running linux from Slackware 8.0 with 2.4.9
> > > kernel.
> > >
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