Re: Changing starting directory for video players

2015-05-02 Thread Ric Moore
do I change the starting directory for these video players? Which config files contain this information? There is a freedesktop standard covering this area[0]. It is implemented in the Debian packages xdg-user-dirs and xdg-user-dirs-gtk. There is no guarantee that all applications will respec

Re: Changing starting directory for video players

2015-05-02 Thread Petter Adsen
ayer starts at the last directory used. > > KMPlayer starts at ~/Documents. > > > > How do I change the starting directory for these video players? > > Which config files contain this information? > > There is a freedesktop standard covering this area[0]. It is > implemented

Re: Changing starting directory for video players

2015-05-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
e starting directory for these video players? Which > config files contain this information? There is a freedesktop standard covering this area[0]. It is implemented in the Debian packages xdg-user-dirs and xdg-user-dirs-gtk. There is no guarantee that all applications will respect the standar

Changing starting directory for video players

2015-05-01 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use Debian 8.0 (Jessie), amd64 port, and KDE. Dragon Player has starting directory: ~Videos. VLC has starting directory: ~ KPlayer starts at the last directory used. KMPlayer starts at ~/Documents. How do I change the starting directory for these video players? Which config files contain

Re: fox.com & abc.com video players

2009-01-28 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
David Fox wrote: DF> Some stuff is available on hulu.com, and that works just fine in DF> Ubuntu, and presumably, debian as well. Or download the eps via DF> bittorrent :). I WOULD NEVER! admit to doing that regularly. it's just faster in some cases. "some cases" being when i for

Re: fox.com & abc.com video players

2009-01-28 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Dancing Fingers wrote: DF> try doing DF> apt-get update DF> apt-get install libflash-mozplugin thanks, will do. i thought i had all the flash crap installed, but i clearly missed those. & when it doesn't work, i'll go with the other suggestion of whining to the webmasters.

Re: fox.com & abc.com video players

2009-01-27 Thread Dancing Fingers
try doing apt-get update apt-get install libflash-mozplugin Chris On Jan 26, 11:40 pm, David Fox wrote: > Oops wanted this to go to the list > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: David Fox > Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:33 PM > Subject: Re: fox.com &

fox.com & abc.com video players

2009-01-26 Thread David Fox
Oops wanted this to go to the list -- Forwarded message -- From: David Fox Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:33 PM Subject: Re: fox.com & abc.com video players To: Ron Johnson On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > You must not have Flash installed, since

Re: fox.com & abc.com video players

2009-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/26/2009 09:32 PM, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: with regards to fox.com & abc.com's live video streams of tv shows from that week - has anyone gotten these to work under debian? the sites work fine otherwise, but the video players are just dead screens under iceape o

fox.com & abc.com video players

2009-01-26 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
with regards to fox.com & abc.com's live video streams of tv shows from that week - has anyone gotten these to work under debian? the sites work fine otherwise, but the video players are just dead screens under iceape or iceweasel or any other icy browser you can name. tia.

Re: all video players dropping frames when playing dvd's

2007-10-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 23:24:37 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Hi all, > > I hadn't played a movie on any of my computers for 2 or 3 months, and tried > to play one today as I had enough time to watch one. What I found is that > movies that used to play very well on my laptop and my workstat

Re: all video players dropping frames when playing dvd's

2007-10-27 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Hi all, > > I hadn't played a movie on any of my computers for 2 or 3 months, and > tried to play one today as I had enough time to watch one. What I found > is that movies that used to play very well on my laptop and my >

all video players dropping frames when playing dvd's

2007-10-27 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi all, I hadn't played a movie on any of my computers for 2 or 3 months, and tried to play one today as I had enough time to watch one. What I found is that movies that used to play very well on my laptop and my workstations will not play at all anymore. They drop frames so badly that the

Re: video players

2001-09-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" and console just "stare" (and must be > laughing at me, secretly). Maybe you forgot to 'apt

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread p
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:22:37PM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:37:51PM +, p wrote: > > pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" a

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:37:51PM +, p wrote: > pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" and console just "stare" (and must be > laughing at me, secretly). what

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread Hereward Cooper
> pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" and console just "stare" (and must be > laughing at me, secretly). > I think you need a xmms plugin to do anything other

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread p
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:51:26PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:48:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around > > with Xine but it's messed up, somet

Re: video players

2001-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:48:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around > with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work > sometimes it starts with a green screen,

Re: video players

2001-09-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi biarro... you can download and compile many different video players... http://www.Linux-Video.net/Video.Players/ ( sorry... its not *.deb packages ( if oyu know where the *.deb packages is... i'll add it to the ( correspondng (readme) *.txt files xth

Re: video players

2001-09-17 Thread Alexander Wasmuth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around > with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work > sometimes it starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. > what player are there that can p

Re: video players

2001-09-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
> what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around with > Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work sometimes it > starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. what player are there > that can play .mpg .avi and div

video players

2001-09-17 Thread BizarroBum
what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work sometimes it starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. what player are there that can play .mpg .av