[dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Mattias Andrée
Ahoy! Does any have a recommendation for a video player that has a good playlist where files can easily be reordered? I'm getting tired of VLC causing X to crash (although it looks like it is exiting without actually crashing or aborting). So I don't really care how crappy it is, as long as it has

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Martin Kühne
While vlc is admittedly a bunch of crap, I have no real suggestion for a playlist editing player. you could wrap mpv with some playlist-managing DIY thing, though, as it does IPC but could as well be quit with SIGQUIT... What's the reasoning behind this question though, why do you need to edit the

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 13:03:53 +0100 Martin Kühne wrote: > While vlc is admittedly a bunch of crap, I have no real > suggestion for a playlist editing player. you could wrap > mpv with some playlist-managing DIY thing, though, as it > does IPC but could as well be quit with SIGQUIT... > > What's t

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Sylvain BERTRAND
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:03:53PM +0100, Martin Kühne wrote: > While vlc is admittedly a bunch of crap... +1 (could not resist to crap on this - "open source software which works well only on windows" - qt, then c++, abominous GUI - unwanted layer between their engine and ffmpeg, worse than m

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Alexander Keller
The simplest way I can imagine is to link them into a directory temporarily and/or permanently with: mkdir playlist ln *some_glob_pattern* playlist Then use the vidir(1) program to edit the files to number them sequentially the way you want. Then you can either create a playlist and delet

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:48:56 -0500 Alexander Keller wrote: > The simplest way I can imagine is to link them into a > directory temporarily and/or permanently with: > > mkdir playlist > ln *some_glob_pattern* playlist > > Then use the vidir(1) program to edit the files to number > them s

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Cág
Mattias Andrée wrote: Does any have a recommendation for a video player that has a good playlist where files can easily be reordered? I think a simple script should work. Not sure about the dynamic management of the playlist though. I switched to ffplay for video and mpg123 for audio, because

[dev] surf crash

2017-01-15 Thread Greg Minshall
hi. trying : surf bit.ly/MoesE-Books gives surf : surf-0.7, ©2009-2015 surf engineers, see LICENSE for details a seg fault on my linux machine : Linux minshall-apollo.minshall.org 4.4.0-57-generic #78-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 9 23:50:32 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux the output is below.

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Martin Kühne
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Mattias Andrée wrote: > The problem with this approach is that I cannot > edit the list whilst it is playing, except for > removing files. My personal solution to this problem is to simply use mpv from CLI per file. There is simply no playlist, but I really don't

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Felix Van der Jeugt
Excerpts from Mattias Andrée's message of 2017-01-15 16:54:46 +0100: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:48:56 -0500 Alexander Keller > wrote: > > The simplest way I can imagine is to link them into a directory > > temporarily and/or permanently with: > > > > mkdir playlist ln *some_glob_pattern* playli

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread hiro
> By the way, has anyone tried OSS on Linux recently? yes, still works, still fucks up on suspend. great on desktops.

Re: [dev] surf crash

2017-01-15 Thread hiro
try compiling your system without dbus. then, add a gdb backtrace. On 1/15/17, Greg Minshall wrote: > hi. trying > > : surf bit.ly/MoesE-Books > > gives surf > > : surf-0.7, ©2009-2015 surf engineers, see LICENSE for details > > a seg fault on my linux machine > > : Linux minshall-apollo.minshal

[dev] cal -5 and -7

2017-01-15 Thread Antoni V.
I wanted to add -5 and -7 to cal and I did. And it works. But it looks bad. Can anyone think of better implementation? Thanks. +case '5': +nmons = 5; +if (--month == 0) { +month = 12; +year--; +

Re: [dev] Request for video player recommendation with a good playlist

2017-01-15 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 22:34:18 +0100 Felix Van der Jeugt wrote: > Excerpts from Mattias Andrée's message of 2017-01-15 > 16:54:46 +0100: > > On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:48:56 -0500 Alexander Keller > > wrote: > > > The simplest way I can imagine is to link them into a > > > directory temporarily and/

Re: [dev] surf crash

2017-01-15 Thread Greg Minshall
Hiro, thanks for the reply. > try compiling your system without dbus. > then, add a gdb backtrace. i'm not sure how to interpret the first line. if it means compile Linux without dbus, i'm afraid i don't know how to do that. (but, with hints and some time, could possibly figure it out; i'm runn

Re: [dev] surf crash

2017-01-15 Thread Cág
Greg, Try re-installing libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0. It is fairly common for dpkg to install broken packages. Those Gdk and dbus warnings you received when running surf shouldn't be vital. If that still doesn't work, bewray your config.mk to us. Cág