mplayer

[Sean McMahon]

If you find a playlist link using links and mplayer starts, how do you get it to
play?  I get some kind of an error, which If I find the time, I'll send along
later.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: mplayer


> The -playlist flag will work with .m3u playlists as well.  For example, it
> works with ACB's radio Main Menu archives.  As to the questions about
> showing tags, Mplayer seems to be incapable of showing tags in OGG vorbis
> files, but will show them in MP3 files.  The -quiet and -really-quiet
> options will lessen the output of Mplayer.  You can set defaults with the
> file .mplayer/config in your home directory.  The man page briefly
> explains this.  I have mine including the line "cache=1024" because I find
> that streaming audio from slower web sites works better with this as the
> default.  My only complaints about Mplayer are that I wish it would
> automatically recognize playlists without requiring the -playlist flag,
> and I wish that, when you paused and unpaused playback, the status line
> would pick up where it left off rather than drawing a new status line.
> What I mean is that you will still have the previous status line which
> will be stopped where you paused the audio.  You could press the space bar
> several times and have a screen full of old status lines.
>
>
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