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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build.
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:21:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98f14178-00d7-e730-e575-c840a5319f92@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2360596.ElGaqSPkdT@rogueboard>

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Michael wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 February 2025 07:53:28 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
>
>> I do wish mpv had a volume control for audio tho.
> It does.  From the fine manual:
>
>   / and *
>          Decrease/increase volume.
>
> Also, on the GUI, if you scroll with your mouse up or down you alter the audio 
> volume.
>

The keyboard option does work.  I didn't know that.  I have a speaker
icon that I can click on to mute/unmute but that's it.  I'd like to have
a control that I can click on and adjust, or better yet, just show up
all the time.  When I scroll the mouse wheel, it moves forward or
backward.  I prefer that really.  I'm bad to skip forward through bits I
don't want to watch.  The arrow keys work but the mouse button is faster
for me. 



>> One thing I really like about Smplayer, the
>> ability to add videos to the playlist and not alter what is currently
>> playing. 
> I think the only way to add a playlist to mpv is by creating a txt file with a 
> list of videos, one video per line, save it as <list_name>.m3u and then drag 
> 'n drop it into the mpv window, or call it with mpv in a terminal:
>
> mpv <list_name>.m3u
>
> You can experiment to see if adding a new m3u list will overwrite the old one, 
> or stop what is currently playing - I haven't tried this yet.  ;-)

I have to admit, I keep saying I want to build playlist files for mpv,
smplayer or any other player, and then instead of selecting a large list
of videos, I just click on the playlist file, right click and open with
preferred player would be a good option too if one file would work with
any player.  I keep saying I want to do that but I just never get around
to finding the time info to do it.  I've really wanted to do this for
two reasons.  I have some videos that have parts in a foreign language. 
For those, I have the subtitle files.  If I go to a directory and just
do a CTRL + A and try to open with Smplayer, the subtitle file makes it
not want to open because it is not a video file.  The file types are
mixed.  That file, because it has the same name as the video, is buried
in there, somewhere.  Then when I added Franks checksum tool, it adds a
file to but I named it so that it will always be at the top.  I do a
CTRL + A then click that file while holding the CTRL key to deselect
it.  Still, it's a extra step.  Having a playlist file would avoid all
of that. 

Another reason I haven't done this, I have well north of 600 directories
that I need to create playlists for.  It would take a while but I could
create them as I go to them to watch the videos.  I just need to find
out how this is done.  I'm thinking just doing a ls and piping it to a
file should work.  I may have to edit out any subtitle files but other
than that, might work.  Then again, there may be some tool that does
this already. 

As it is, I have a entry in my right click menu that adds videos to the
Smplayer playlist.  I have one entry that doesn't but it will add to the
playlist if it is already playing a video since Smplayer is set to
single instance.  For mpv, I just have to highlight all the videos I
want to play and then open as a group.  It will then treat them as a
playlist.  For my use, it works fine.  A playlist would improve things
in a way tho. 

One of these days.  At least now I can play my videos and have a clean
emerge after updating.  ;-)  I wonder, does Frank have a nifty script
for creating playlist files????/  ROFL 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-23 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-20 18:00 [gentoo-user] media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build Dale
2025-02-20 18:14 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 18:23   ` Dale
2025-02-20 18:35     ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 18:38       ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 19:06         ` Dale
2025-02-20 21:35           ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-20 18:59   ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-20 23:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-20 21:42 ` Michael Cook
2025-02-20 22:03   ` Dale
2025-02-20 23:36     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-21  0:05       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-21  8:06         ` Dale
2025-02-21 14:54           ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-21 15:38             ` Dale
2025-02-21 23:59               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-22 13:35                 ` Dale
2025-02-22 22:42                   ` Dale
2025-02-23  1:34                     ` David M. Fellows
2025-02-23  7:53                       ` Dale
2025-02-23  8:23                         ` Michael
2025-02-23 10:21                           ` Dale [this message]
2025-02-23 12:54                             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-23 18:46                             ` Michael

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