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

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Mar 22 18:41:35 UTC 2011


On 03/22/2011 09:50 AM, 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')
> 

https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily
Unfortunately, or fortunately can't tell which, you'll get updated
builds approximately every two weeks. It gets a little old having to
update every other week.

RVM used to keep his ppas' up to date, but hasn't done so for quite some
time:
https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/smplayer
https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/mplayer






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