Re: [9fans] Ideas???

["Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>]

>> * port mplayer?? It's ugly code, but it works, and it works pretty fast ;-D
>>
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> 
> I second the mplayer vote, because it's possibly the best (from a
> user's perspective, I don't know what the code is like) media player
> I've ever used. However, before mplayer is useful, I think we kinda
> need some more sound drivers.
> 
> John

Mmmhh,

man 7 juke # juke(7)
man 7 playlistfs # playlistfs(7)

I have not yet looked deeply enough into those, but as far as I recall, you create a decoder for each file-type as an external program. I have no idea how things like fast-forward/backward work, for instance (pause, etc). 

And I have no idea how I easily create playlists. It's shell magic for mplayer, and GUIs using mplayer may also provide ways - as I read the manpages, I am supposed to write maps myself. :-(

Supposed those things are easily done, 'porting mplayer' becomes 'port the codecs, create a decoder for each of those'. At least for the audio-part. But imho it works for video, too.


Speaking of those manpages, what is audio(7)? I don't have that manpage.