Wanted - video player (ogg video) with fast forward, pause, reverse, etc. controls

[Chris G]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:50:51PM -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> On 11-03-22 08:09 AM, Chris G wrote:
> >The subject says it all really, I want a video player for looking at the
> >results of running a webcam (I used cheese to do the recording) that
> >will allow me to fast forward, stop, reverse and so on to make it easy
> >to search for stuff.
> >
> >Ideally there would be time indicators that would show elapsed time and
> >even 'actual time' being the 'start of recording' + 'elapsed time' but
> >maybe that's being a bit hopeful.
> >
> Mplayer is arguably the best video player available.  and SMplayer
> the best front end for it.  I noticed somewhere that Mplayer now has
> a PPA somewhere for current nightly builds on Ubuntu, I would
> suggest using that. (Mplayer team are allergic to actually making a
> 'release')
> 
I had already installed mplayer, I have now added smplayer.  My first
attempt at moving through a big video created by cheese made mplayer
crash. (Installed mplayer and smplayer from the Ubuntu repositories)

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Chris Green