Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-21 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 19/12/17 09:45 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:36:11AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Follow-up: I've just come across MP3 files in my collection for which the new mplayer _does_ display the tags. Maybe it's just becoming more picky - which isn't really a Good Thing. Po

Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:36:11AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Follow-up: I've just come across MP3 files in my collection for which the > new mplayer _does_ display the tags. Maybe it's just becoming more picky - > which isn't really a Good Thing. Postel's Law says, "Be conservative in > what

Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-19 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 19/12/17 09:15 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 19/12/17 12:12 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:48:13PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I'm a heavy user of mplayer from the command line - it's a wonderful utility that does what I want [...] There are config files for mplaye

Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-19 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 19/12/17 12:12 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:48:13PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I'm a heavy user of mplayer from the command line - it's a wonderful utility that does what I want [...] There are config files for mplayer; the Debian mplayer puts them in /etc/mplay

Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:48:13PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I'm a heavy user of mplayer from the command line - it's a wonderful > utility that does what I want [...] There are config files for mplayer; the Debian mplayer puts them in /etc/mplaye

Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:54:32PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > In stretch mplayer may be linked to mpv - the current prefered > multi-media player in debian. The mplayer2 package does this. Note that mplayer2 is just a dummy package pulling in mpv

Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-18 Thread Marc Auslander
In stretch mplayer may be linked to mpv - the current prefered multi-media player in debian. The mplayer2 package does this. Look at /usr/bin/mplayer and see if its a symlink. There is an mplayer package as well - I don't know if its the old mplayer.

mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-18 Thread Charlie Gibbs
I'm a heavy user of mplayer from the command line - it's a wonderful utility that does what I want and lets me instantly move around in a video or MP3 file. However, after upgrading one of my machines from Jessie to Stretch, I've noticed a couple of changes in its behaviour that I'd really lik