Media player with crossfading effect.

[NoOp]

On 05/14/2009 05:07 AM, Raseel Bhagat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a media player with a crossfading effect, so that the
> transition between two files is smooth.
> 
> What I have observed is, when the media player switches from one video to
> another, it pauses, switches and then runs.
> 
> Since this transition is not as noticeable with Audio files, I am looking
> for it only in the video files.
> 
> Basically, I want to keep on playing videos without EVER having to see the
> desktop.
> 
> I have tried googling and reading about it for VLC and Mplayer but did not
> come across any such option.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Raseel.
> http://raseel.in
> 
> 

Try smplayer (front-end for mplayer):
http://smplayer.berlios.de/

$ apt-cache policy smplayer
smplayer:
  Installed: 0.6.6-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.6.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Perhaps the enqueue feature will meet your needs.

For VLC, try:
http://www.videolan.org/support/