Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2007-01-20 Thread Niki Guldbrand
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...) alan Have you ever tried pinfo ? [I]

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:33, Uwe Thiem wrote: Not the same. That HTML version had a lot of internal links. ;-) /usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0_rc1/DOCS/HTML/ alan p.s. man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is there, full and complete :-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 December 2006 11:28, Alan McKinnon wrote: man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is there, full and complete :-) Well, well, well ... that the POV of a masochist. ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective.

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:28:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is there, full and complete :-) man mplayer is an example of why we need info pages; far too much information for one page. At the very least, the mencoder-only

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:28:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is there, full and complete :-) man mplayer is an example of why we need info pages; far too much

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...) Read it in Konqueror :) -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling me in protest (apologies to

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 December 2006 18:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:10:55 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...) Read it in Konqueror :) Neill is

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:25, maxim wexler wrote: [SNIP] I note the mplayer man page is 6700 lines long. Is there something out there less cumbersome? $info mplayer is the same. Not that I'm aware of. Maybe google... You do know that you can search through the man page, right? If not I

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 December 2006 15:56, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:25, maxim wexler wrote: [SNIP] I note the mplayer man page is 6700 lines long. Is there something out there less cumbersome? $info mplayer is the same. Not that I'm aware of. Maybe google... You do

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:11:32 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I once found an HTML version of that man page that is slightly easier to browse. Unfortunately, I don't remember the URL - probably somewhere on their web site. man:mplayer if you use konqueror :) -- Neil Bothwick Room service? Send up

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 December 2006 22:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:11:32 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I once found an HTML version of that man page that is slightly easier to browse. Unfortunately, I don't remember the URL - probably somewhere on their web site. man:mplayer if you use

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-12 Thread maxim wexler
So did you set ao=alsa in /etc/mlayer.conf (~/.mplayer/config should work too)? No, I uncommented ao=sdl:esd. So now I've set ao=alsa and that's a definite improvement. Both gui and command line work OK. Thanks Bo. I note the mplayer man page is 6700 lines long. Is there something out

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-11 Thread maxim wexler
Ahh its so nice to have answered someone elses question for a change :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Whoa! I typed too soon. It doesn't work if I enter $ mplayer -playlist myplaylist.pla. It just scrolls through the list without a sound. Ctrl-C kicks me out. However $gmplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 11 December 2006 16:40, maxim wexler wrote: Ahh its so nice to have answered someone elses question for a change :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Whoa! I typed too soon. It doesn't work if I enter $ mplayer -playlist myplaylist.pla. It just scrolls through the list

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED

2006-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
--- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What output device is gmplayer set to use? Try explicitly setting it to alsa. for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf works for gui too, thanks Nick Maxim