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Is there an ultimate video media player ?

The wishes:

- that has brightness changes support
- a shell that from command line that can change volume, playlist up/down, and most important BRIGHTNESS UP/DoWN
- a embedded selection that it excludes the files from the playlist that it cannot be read due to crap format and do not message OK like totem ! just skip it
- that can support subtitles with larger fonts
- that has a clean playlist (with big fonts would be prefered)
- that supports lirc
- that supports xinerama where ever the mouse is located : right or left screen
- that works well (gmplayer hangs on vo ouput, files ... even. gxine displays OK when it cannot read it)
- that can save the settings from the program-shell
- do not crash ! (vlc media player crash as hell (stable debian))
- and that can Volume UP /volume DOWN that is only for the software, and independant of the PCM (like totem with up / down key for isntance)

thanks if you have any ideas ...

I really do not know if it meets all your requirements, but mplayer is the best video player ever (both in Unix and Windows worlds). Don't use the gui, cause it can't implement all the abilities which mplayer has.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien_Hominid (Post 2923983)

You are damn right but hte problem is that mplayer cannot handle brightness +1
(gmplayer can but is pretty buggy and hangs on difficult format)

maybe could be fixing mplayer bug.

some lirc for mplayer:

Code:

############################MPLAYER###################################

#

###########################

#        mplayer        #

###########################



begin

        button = Screen

        prog = mplayer

        config = vo_fullscreen

end





begin

        prog  = mplayer

        button = ESC

        repeat = 2

        config = brightness -5

end



begin

        prog  = mplayer

        button = Stop

        repeat = 2

        config = brightness +5

end



begin

        prog = mplayer

        button = Menu

        config = osd

end



begin

        button = Pause

        prog = mplayer

        config = pause

end



begin

        button = Rewind

        prog = mplayer

        config = seek -15

        repeat = 2

end

begin

        button = Forward

        prog = mplayer

        config = seek +15

        repeat = 2

end

begin

        button = Left

        prog = mplayer

        config = seek -60

        repeat = 2

end

begin

        button = Right

        prog = mplayer

        config = seek +60

        repeat = 2

end

begin

        button = Next

        prog = mplayer

        config = pt_step 1

end

begin

        button = Previous

        prog = mplayer

        config = pt_step -1

end

begin

        button = dvd_stop

        prog = mplayer

        config = seek 0 1\npause

end

begin

        button = dvd_zoom

        prog = mplayer

        config = quit

end

begin

        button = Quit

        prog = mplayer

        config = quit

end

--
MPLAYER IS THE KING ;-)

Maybe try one of the many other gui frontends for mplayer. Smplayer seems to be in strong developement and works very well.

Brian

I also suggest mplayer; mplayer is kind of a the browser in the group of media players which first of all simply plays the media file and is _very_ tolerant if it comes to the actual quality of encoding.

But I never use the GUI.

And what do you mean with "mplayer can't change brightness +1"?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Su-Shee (Post 2924514)

yeap, with lirc ... give it a try with you lirc remote controller.
yiou may find above the .lircrc with that ...

thks