I ended up using the following script to launch Mplayer playback:<br><br>#!/bin/bash<br>MPLAYER=/usr/bin/mplayer<br>FILE=$1<br>MOVIE=${FILE##*/}<br>VIDEOS="/media/drive1/videos/ /media/drive2/videos/"<br>MOVIE_PATH=$(find $VIDEOS -name $MOVIE)<br>
$MPLAYER -nogui -quiet -fs -zoom -noborder -vo gl -ao alsa:noblock $MOVIE_PATH<br>exit 0<br><br>which does the job (assuming there is only one copy of each movie in the VIDEOS group)<br><br>Although I would like to use the Internal player too in some cases. In 0.20 there was a menu "Video manager" where I could open a pop-up menu for particular movie and edit it's meta data and/or the player command. I can't find this option in 0.23 so wonder was it completely removed (which I doubt) or I've been looking in wrong places?<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Igor<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:41 AM, George Nassas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnassas@gmail.com">gnassas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 2012-03-24, at 10:32 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
<br>
> The use of external player as a default is planned for<br>
> removal, as well as all the various options for per-extension and<br>
> per-file external players. There will be one single "alternative<br>
> player" that can be set and manually called instead of the internal<br>
> player through the UI for troubled videos.<br>
<br>
</div>This is a good idea and overdue. Glad to know that a total zap of the external option was just loose talk.<br>
<br>
As for misbehaving videos it's not worth the bother when some dumbbell encodes a lecture in realvideo or some other abomination. Easier to shell out to mplayer and move on with life. I know how to file bugs when there are actual problems.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
- George<br>
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