[MPlayer-users] Lost functionality

[Niclas Fredriksson]

I've been using mplayer for years now and always loved it. Lately I've had 
some problems viewing some wmv and nsv videos that work fine in VLC so I 
decided to download the latest version (MPlayer 1.0rc1 Windows). It works 
fine, but I seem to have lost some functionality that I enjoyed in 
previous mplayer versions. I'm sure it's still there and that it's just 
been moved, but I just can't find it any more.

The first thing I noticed is that right clicking on the video (while it's 
playing) does nothing in this latest version ("No bind found for key 
'MOUSe_BTN2'). In my previous version right clicking would cycle through 
different onscreen information (one click would show length of video 
("01:12/45:29"), two clicks would show the same but in percentage ("01:12 
(2%), three clicks would disable all on screen info and four clicks would 
bring it back to the normal mode (showing on screen info when avaliable)). 
I liked that info because it made it easy for me to keep track of where in 
the video file I currently am, and it was a quick way for me to see 
exactly how long the video is when I start it.

The second thing I noticed is clicking the "maximize window" on the top 
right (Windows OS) does the same as f (fullscreen). In my old version, 
clicking the "maximize window" button would make the video screen as big 
as it could be without necessarily making it cover the entire screen. Most 
videos would cover about 75% of my screen (because of the x/y pixel ratio 
the screen will maximize horizontally before it maximizes vertically). I 
liked that because then I would be able to bring out other windows over my 
mplayer window and do other things while the video ran in the background. 
In order to do that now I need to resize the window manually (drag'n'drop) 
which takes a lot longer.

The third big thing I noticed is the video shows through other windows. A 
lot of other applications have some things in them that become see through 
when brought over the mplayer window, which never happened in my old 
version of mplayer. That makes it really hard to have other windows over 
my mplayer window doing other stuff while having a video showing in the 
background.

So is there any way to fix these annoyances that I've found in the 1.0rc1 
Windows version or do you recommend that I try out the old versions 
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/) until I find the one that did 
what I wanted it to do?

-- 
Niclas