[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Bind to seek to a given percent

[Clément Bœsch]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:03:29AM -0500, compn wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:10:38 +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >It's the second time a person tells me he prefers GUI over classic MPlayer
> >because the progress bar allows them to seek to a given position
> >immediately. So I was wondering about making a default bind for this.
> >
> >It seems there is not current solution to bind a combination of keys, just
> >like KEY_CTRL + '1', so I just binded F1 to F9 ('1' to '9' are for most of
> >them already in use). I know this bind is not really good (especially for
> >those using desktop managers) but I didn't find any better.
> >
> >What do you think of this?
> 
> i think the users like seeking with the mouse, which is how its done in
> every other video player with a gui. even flash plugin/youtube.
> 
> maybe it would be wiser to just remove GUI and replace it with smplayer?
> 

Why smplayer? Why not gnome-mplayer? It seems to be maintained too
(release 1.0.0 2 days ago), and imo lighter
http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/downloads/list

Note that I don't know smplayer (just heard about it), neither I use
gnome-mplayer.

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Clément B.
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