Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 02:15, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > Interesting, is this on all files, or just some?
> > >
> > > Is it the same in gmplayer and mplayer?
> >
> > gmplayer -mplayer itself does refuse to run.
> >
> > Oh, but if you know mplayer so well, maybe you can tell me, how to fast
> > forward (2x, 4x) in (g)mplayer? I do not mean skip forward some seconds,
> > I mean real fast forward?
>
> I have never tried it, so I read the man page just now, and searched on
> "speed". I pretty quickly dound this:
>
> general control
>           <- and ->
>                Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
>           up and down
>                Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
>           pgup and pgdown
>                Seek backward/forward 10 minutes.
>           [ and ]
>                Decreases/increases current playback speed by 10%.
>           { and }
>                Halves/doubles current playback speed.
>
> so looks like [ ] { and } should be tried.

thanks, but that is pretty un-intuitive.
xine uses arrow up/down for the speed... a combination where I do not need to 
span my fingers over half the keyboard..
But mplayer also jumps forward with mouse wheel up, and backwards with mouse 
wheel down... the opposite of what I would expect. If you read a book, you 
read from top down.. so going downwards is forward. ;)
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