On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:40 pm, Jonathan Wright wrote:
> Michael Crute wrote:
> > I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at
> > all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs.
>
> Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard
> win32codecs. I do find some issues with stability, at least mainly with
> it not shutting down properly (killall mplayer solves that though :),
> however as long as you know the key-strokes, mplayer is miles better
> than WMP, plus doesn't take up so much screen space :)
>
Hi Jonathan,
Yep, you're right. Mplayer is a wonderful application, but a bit too delicate
to use all the time. I experience the same "fail to shutdown" problem you
have and in addition to that, after a video plays, I can click on the "open a
file" button and it will crash... almost every time.
It used to be, if I recompiled (emerged) mplayer and all of it's dependencies,
it would behave to a degree that made it useful. But of late, that doesn't
help problems much.
Cheers, Jerry
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