Hi Burt Sorry for the slow reply. The mail headers of your original post show that it was only sent to me personally. This is probably gmail's fault. The recent improvements made by Google caused Quick Reply to default replies to the individual rather than the list - at least in basic html mode. This now seems to be corrected where I am anyhow. Perhaps it has learnt when I kept changing the reply option.
Your original post was probably referring to gnome-mplayer. From http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/gnome-mplayer "You can play all your multimedia (audio, video, CD, DVDs, and VCDs, streams etc. with full DVD and MKV chapter support), organize, sort and create playlists, take screenshots while playing videos, be notified about media changes, retrieve cover art and more. Gnome-MPlayer fully supports subtitles giving the ability to specify preferred audio and subtitle languages." I have rarely used this program, which has a good reputation, but rather VLC. So I cannot really comment except to say that VLC is separate altogether. Mplayer started life as a movie player for unix-like systems launced from a console but I would expect that the X window system would have to be running. The gnome prefix is because the software writers gnome tool kit or GTK has been used to make the GUI. Mplayer supports a wide range of software and hardware video systems including X. The only console audio player I can think of from the top of my head is cplay. Quote "cplay provides a user-friendly interface to play various types of sound files. It offers a simple file list with which you can navigate around looking for audio files and a playlist to which you can add the files you want to play. cplay can play the songs in your playlist in repeat or random mode, and offers the option to store the playlist. Currently, the following audio formats are supported: MP3 (through madplay, mpg321 or splay), Ogg Vorbis (through ogg123), MOD and other module formats (through mikmod or xmp), WAV (through sox) and Speex (through speex)." Unquote Sorry to say I've never used this either. This is not a lot of help but my laptop at work is too low powered to support my Vinux DVD so it is difficult for me to investigate. Regards Maurice On 24/08/2010, Burt Henry <burt1ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry if this went directly to you, maybe I some how hit reply to > all instead of the normal reply option, but do not know how, and do not > know how I'd have received your message if it were not from the > list...check and see if it did not go to the list as well..I'll check > here as well, but sometimes things are deleted (by me of course) before > they should be lol. > Burt > > > On 08/24/2010 11:37 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: >> Burt >> >> I'll have to find time to have a think but meanwhile I'll forward your >> message to the list. >> >> Best Wishes >> Maurice >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Burt Henry<burt1ib...@gmail.com> >> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:21:18 -0500 >> Subject: is anyone using the gnome media player >> To: Maurice McCarthy<mansel...@gmail.com> >> >> I am a new Linux user. I installed the Vinux Flavor of Ubuntu 10.04 >> Lucid about 5 weeks ago, and am still sorting out my core programs for >> some tasks, and would like advice from other blind users as to best >> choices for media players. I do not want to have 5 or 6 players >> installed like I do in windows, but would like to have 2 or three that >> can take care of all of my audio/video needs. I have heard a bit about a >> gnome media player that is actually a front end for some other players >> including VLC. I have been mostly using the movie-player that came with >> the Vinux distro, and for podcasts rhythm box...also I down-loaded the >> streamtuner package that came with the audacious player. I do not know >> if this is normal but I could not get audacious to fast forward or "jump >> to" anything..no matter how many seconds or minutes I put in the edit >> field it always just started from the beginning of the audio file. >> I do not generally use many play-lists and do listen to a good bit of >> streaming audio. I'd like easy access to fast forward/rewind controls in >> some form-and the ability to rip from those streams with out much >> setup...(I hear something I may want to record and just do it; maybe >> rewinding if it's possible to go back using buffered bits, and a couple >> or three keystrokes and I am recording till I choose to stop), maybe I >> am missing something with rhythmbox, but I have not found how to see >> what if any podcast is actually being down-loaded except by checking in >> the folder to see if a new file has shown-up. >> That's more or less the wish-list, so any recommendations on what media >> player to try, or how to better take advantage of what I have would be >> greatly appreciated. I have no experience with console media players, >> but would be willing to try if someone gives me a good reason to try one >> and or a couple of tips on how to get started with it. >> Thanks in advance for any ideas. >> B.H. >> >> >> On 08/24/2010 01:29 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: >> >>> Thanks Spencer >>> >>> Up to the eyeballs just now, also. >>> >>> Good Luck >>> Maurice >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- > *the above was probably written by- > Burt Henry > Contact Info: *email, GTalk&AIM- > (burt1ib...@gmail.com) > *Follow Me on Twitter- > @BurtHenry > *and I’m on Facebook* > > -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
