[MPlayer-users] GMPlayer

[Sig Lange]

Allow my opinion here...

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:07:04 +0000 (UTC), Troodon <g_muppet at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all--
> 
> I am absolutely impressed with mplayer! It can play virtually any type of
> videoclip. Using GMPlayer mplayer-1.0pre5-1 on RH 9+ AMD K6-2 500 w/ 256MB RAM.
> 
> Four features are missing for gmplayer to be my "ideal" media player. First, I
> would like the videoclip window to remain open when finished playing, allowing
> me to use a slider to "scroll through" the movieclip (a la windows media player,
> or realplayer); currently, a window does remain open but it displays the splash
> screen rather than a frame of the last played videoclip. 

So? Hit play and use the scrollbar
> Second, I would like to
> have an option "repeat forever". 
gmplayer -loop 0 ...

> Third, it would be great if a standard gui were
> avaibale, with menus and a Gnome or KDE interface/controls (see, for example,
> Helix Player for Linux from RealNetworks).
gmplayer is skinable, fThe windows media player skin comes to mind

> And fourth, a feature to open
> videoclips in a single player window rather than launch multiple instances of
> mplayer every time a open a file.
> A simple bash wrapper script would be

#!/bin/bash
pidof gmplayer &>/dev/null && killall -TERM gmplayer
gmplayer $@