[gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

[gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

[Ian K]

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Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10
to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed.
Although
there are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working?
Thanks!
Ian

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Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

[Michael Crute]

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On 8/25/05, Ian K <omega_2_1@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10
> to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed.
> Although
> there are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working?
> Thanks!
> Ian
> 
> 
I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at all 
then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs.

-Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

[Jonathan Wright]

Michael Crute wrote:
> I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at
> all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs.

Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard
win32codecs. I do find some issues with stability, at least mainly with
it not shutting down properly (killall mplayer solves that though :),
however as long as you know the key-strokes, mplayer is miles better
than WMP, plus doesn't take up so much screen space :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

[Jerry McBride]

On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:40 pm, Jonathan Wright wrote:
> Michael Crute wrote:
> > I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at
> > all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs.
>
> Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard
> win32codecs. I do find some issues with stability, at least mainly with
> it not shutting down properly (killall mplayer solves that though :),
> however as long as you know the key-strokes, mplayer is miles better
> than WMP, plus doesn't take up so much screen space :)
>

Hi Jonathan,

Yep, you're right. Mplayer is a wonderful application, but a bit too delicate 
to use all the time. I experience the same "fail to shutdown" problem you 
have and in addition to that, after a video plays, I can click on the "open a 
file" button and it will crash... almost every time.

It used to be, if I recompiled (emerged) mplayer and all of it's dependencies, 
it would behave to a degree that made it useful. But of late, that doesn't 
help problems much.

Cheers, Jerry


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Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

[Jonathan Wright]

Jerry McBride wrote:
> Yep, you're right. Mplayer is a wonderful application, but a bit too delicate 
> to use all the time. I experience the same "fail to shutdown" problem you 
> have and in addition to that, after a video plays, I can click on the "open a 
> file" button and it will crash... almost every time.

Personally, I prefer to skip the GTK interface and just use the standard
mplayer version, not gmplayer. I've mapped all the keys to my liking, so
I need nothing more :)

It's a great program, just looking forward to the day it gains a good
stable codebase :)

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[gentoo-user] Re: Windows Media Player

[Daniel Vrcic]

* Jonathan Wright <mail@djnauk.co.uk> [05-08-26 00:57]:
> Jerry McBride wrote:
> > Yep, you're right. Mplayer is a wonderful application, but a bit too delicate 
> > to use all the time. I experience the same "fail to shutdown" problem you 
> > have and in addition to that, after a video plays, I can click on the "open a 
> > file" button and it will crash... almost every time.
> Personally, I prefer to skip the GTK interface and just use the standard
> mplayer version, not gmplayer. I've mapped all the keys to my liking, so
> I need nothing more :)

You're using slave mode? What keys?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows Media Player

[Jonathan Wright]

Daniel Vrcic wrote:
>>Personally, I prefer to skip the GTK interface and just use the standard
>>mplayer version, not gmplayer. I've mapped all the keys to my liking, so
>>I need nothing more :)
> 
> You're using slave mode? What keys?
> 

I've got the Logitech diNovo wireless keyboard, so I've mapped all the
main functions to the keys on the Media Pad, meaning I don't have to
have the full keyboard with me when I'm using mplayer :)

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