Xine issues.

[markjs]

I am running the VESA driver for my Radeon 8500LE because even though Redhat 8 is supposed to supprt the card, it does now. Anyway it's gonna require much work to get it running right but I have noticed that Xine is black and white only while Mplayer is full color. Also Xine has lines up and down the screen. I don't think it's the video driver, but does anyone have a clue (I like Xine better).

[adam_boz]

mplayer really is the better of the two (the best for linux actually). I'd suggest just getting used to mplayer. Xine is extremely buggy.

[sarah31]

haha i was thinking the exact opposite. i have found mplayer to be very unreliable :)

[adam_boz]

:D
I had a problem compiling xine,
you had a problem installing a mplayer binary?
:D

Linux is great, isn't it?

p.s.- out of all those prog's I compiled for my system, xine was the only one to sucessfully crash my system :-(

[markjs]

I like Mplayer fine except that you can't resize the video or fast forward at all. What I am looking for is basically a Windows Media Player replacement, and when I am playing videos, I want a nice gui, not some command line switches I have to use and remember. I don't think thats really too much to ask. Anyway it looks like Xine has more of the media player like features, I just can't figure why it doesn't work right.

[adam_boz]

If you check out "man mplayer" it'll give you the rundown on how to do all that stuff. It'd probably be best for you to just type "gmplayer".... that's the gui-frontend for it.

[~][12:13:03]> mplayer --help | less


Basic keys: (see the man page for the complete list, also check input.conf)
<- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute
pgup or pgdown seek backward/forward 10 minutes
< or > step backward/forward in playlist
p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
q or ESC stop playing and quit program
+ or - adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second
o cycle OSD mode: none / seekbar / seekbar+timer
* or / increase or decrease pcm volume
z or x adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second
r or t adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vop expand

EDIT:

check out some screen shots here:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/screen.html

as for sizing?
I just dug this one up I saw a while ago:
"mplayer -osdlevel 0 -fs -rootwin -loop 0 filename.movie
That loads mplayer, doesn't display any ' on screen display', shows the video full screen, on the desktop background and loops it forever. Great to have running at startup if you've got a decent movie!"


DID YOU SAY MEDIA PLAYER?

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/images/skin-wmp6-shot01.jpg

[packman]

Xine looks cool and those functions are nice, but I use mplayer because Xine has problem with some graphic cards. Well at least their F&A says it has problem with my graphic card (S3 Savage). Mplayer doesn't have that and works great.

[markjs]

OK here's a real pisser.....every time I use Gmplayer I get a fatal error "error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" yet mplayer works fine? I think I am gonna start a new thread with this question as it isn't really a xine issue anymore.

[adam_boz]

do you have any configuration files for Mplayer? if so, post'em.

or try this:

gmplayer -vo xv