[MPlayer-users] Mplayer frontend suggestion?

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi Dotan Cohen!

 On 2008.10.27 at 17:56:10 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote next:

> (similar to that available in MS Windows Media Player for those
> familiar with it). The user makes presentations with a mouse, and
> keyboard input is not an option without reevaluating her entire
> workflow. What frontends can the mplayer community recommend? Thanks.

I have no idea about windows media player, but if you need control
similar to stock xine ui (mouse wheel changes playback speed), you can
get this with stock mplayer. Just use something like

MOUSE_BTN0 speed_mult 0.9091
MOUSE_BTN1 \ speed_set 1.0
MOUSE_BTN2 speed_mult 1.1

in input.conf. I don't think you can bind it to mousewheel, though,
since after a mousewheel input bug was introduced a few years ago it's
unusable (makes mplayer's input stuck), but this way you can left/right
click to slow down and speed up playback, and middle click returns speed
to 100%. The difference with xine is that you can't set negative speed;
in xine, when decreasing playback speed, eventually you can make video
go backwards (with configurable speed); I don't think it's possible with
mplayer. If you need that, you might want to use some player based on
xine-lib (xine, totem and so on).

As for mplayer's gui interface, smplayer seems to be most popular right
now. It seems to be quite advanced, but I never tried it and can't say
if it supports classic input.conf assignments.

-- 

Vladimir