R: Re: [MPlayer-users] Karaoke and MIDI in Mplayer...

[Andrea]

Geexbox Is a minidistribution on a cd that runs only mplayer for playing 
video and audio files.
The only thing we (me and many other geexbox users) need is midi and 
karaoke support in mplayer.
bye

In data Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:57:58 +0000, James MS Anderson 
<replys2me at yahoo.co.uk> ha scritto:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Couldn't mplayer check to see if timidity is installed, then launch that
> to play midi files?
>
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 15:55, barb3tta at aliceposta.it wrote:
>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
>> DOCS/bugreports.html]
>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
>> DOCS/bugreports.html]
>> > I thnk if you add this feature in your player, then it will be the 
>> best > player ever.
>>
>> I'm not sure the mplayer developers would add MIDI playback, as mplayer 
>> is primarily a video player rather than an audio player.  You might be 
>> better off using something like XMMS, which is an audio only player 
>> similar to Winamp, and only using mplayer when you want to watch video.
>>
>> > I found 2 midi/karaoke players for linux, and the rve plugin for 
>> mplayer:
>>
>> You might also want to check out Timidity, which is a software wavetable 
>> synthesiser that can play MIDIs very nicely with a good SoundFont, even 
>> if your soundcard doesn't have wavetable support.
>>
>> I have written a plugin for XMMS which will play MIDIs through Timidity 
>> (and will automatically load a song-specific SoundFont if one exists.)  
>> You can get it here: http://members.optushome.com.au/a.nielsen/  There's 
>> also a link to XMMS and Timidity on that page.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam.
>>
>> Yeah, I know... the problem is I use GeexBox, and Geexbox includes only 
>> Mplayer.... so I asked this...
>> thanks anyway
>> bye!
>>
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