Matt Connell wrote: > 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. > >
I've tried tons of different ones and QMPlay2 is the one I settled on. I didn't realize it had this issue of only one instance, maybe it didn't have this problem at the time, and the only thing I didn't like, it not closing at the end. Otherwise, it worked as I wanted out of the box really. I just tried mpv again. I can't find the menu bar so I can adjust some things. It doesn't seem to have a preferences thing that I can find. You know where they hide that thing? Usually ctrl M I think makes the menu bar appear but didn't work here. It does look ok. It plays the videos I tried it on at least. After all, most every player out there is just a front end to mpv or ffmpeg type software anyway. I didn't test multiple instance yet tho. Sort of ran into the no menu thing. lol Dale :-) :-)
