On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 09:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Gnome-player is about dead. It got removed from the tree ages ago > but > until a recent upgrade, it still worked. I been using QMPlay2 on > videos > that doesn't have the right codec thingy for Gnome-player. So, I'm > kinda used to QMPlay2, except it doesn't close at the end of the > video. > Anyway, I went into settings and made sure to uncheck the box for > only > allowing a single instance. That should allow multiple instances of > QMPlay2 but it doesn't. If I click on a video file and QMPlay2 is > open > anywhere else, it starts playing where ever it was open, not even > where > I am at the moment. It's bad enough I lose my place in another video > but I have to go look through a dozen or so desktops to find out > where > it is playing. >
100% _not_ what you asked, and you're probably tired of *this* question, but have you tried media-video/mpv? mpv will play anything imaginable, it closes when the video ends, handles multiple instances without any touching, etc.
