On Friday 22 December 2006 19:44, Paul Smith wrote:
On 12/22/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Feeling fed-up with xine being broken since the updates, and not really
> having time to bother fixing it at the moment I decided to try mplayer.
> I use xine mainly for checking my home-made recordings, so the tools I
> most need are the ability to step through the chapters and take a
> snapshot of the title screen for use on the case. I can't manage to do
> either of these on mplayer, and wonder whether it is the app or my
> ineptitude.
>
> Stepping through seems to take me just 10 seconds along the time-line -
> rather slow for a long production. I have 5-minute-ish chapters made,
> and want to jump along them. I can't find any snapshot tool, and using
> ksnapshot seems to result in either a blank blue screen or a jig-saw
> series of part-screens, overwriting previously saved unrelated pngs.
> I've never seen behaviour like this before. Outside of mplayer ksnapshot
> behaves perfectly.
>
> I guess I'll have to fix xine tomorrow - but is mplayer really so lame?
Anne,
It is easy and quick to fix xine: see the thread at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=116653178122843&w=2
Hi, Paul. Yes, I know, I read the thread, but it's yet another hassle that I
could do without right now. I'm a little peeved that a 'yum update' on
Wednesday broke xine, and here we are, going into a holiday weekend without
it being fixed. OK, rant over. I'll change the repo settings in the morning
and get it sorted.
Thanks for answering.
Anne