smplayer dependency on mplayer1

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Robert Burmeister <
Robert.Burmeister at utoledo.edu> wrote:

> On 9/8/2014 3:43 AM, Jan Beich wrote:
>
>> Robert_Burmeister<robert.burmeister at utoledo.edu>  writes:
>>
>>  So, what alternatives are there to add controls to Mplayer2?
>>>
>>>  mplayer2 is mostly dead or at least not actively developed. It has a
>> fork called mpv with simple OSD-based GUI as well as several projects
>> building GUI on top.
>>
>> http://bakamplayer.u8sand.net/ (Mono or QT5)
>> https://github.com/sebadoom/mpvguihs (haskell-gtk)
>> https://cmplayer.github.io/ (QT5)
>>
>> I've wrote a port for bakamplayer to check how libmpv consumer
>> not a wrapper around mpv command looks like.
>>
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193455
>>
>>  Tried it, it doesn't run on FreeBSD 10.1 i386.
>
> I use options:
>
>      OPENGL=on: 2D/3D rendering support via OpenGL
>      VAAPI=on: VAAPI (GPU video acceleration) support
>      VDPAU=on: VDPAU (GPU video acceleration) support
>
> which worked fine with Mplayer and Mplayer2.
>
> Mplayer2 works and seems to have better nVidea support;
> I'd just like some way to skip to the middle of an MP4...
>

I have not had any issues with skipping to the middle of an mp4 with either
vlc or xine. With xine you can literally skip to the exact middle with
<CTRL-5>. Unless you are wedded to mplayer2, wither of those should work
well.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com