Xmms & Mp4 Files

[Jon_J]

xmms is supposed to play movies, doesn't it?
I tried to load a mp4 file that plays fine in cacko, but xmms doesn't even load it.
I cannot get it to display "file info" either.
xmms looks like an audio player, does it really play movies?
Sorry about the newb questions.  I installed all the libraries it said were missing.

[Meanie]

xmms is supposed to play movies, doesn't it?
I tried to load a mp4 file that plays fine in cacko, but xmms doesn't even load it.
I cannot get it to display "file info" either.
xmms looks like an audio player, does it really play movies?
Sorry about the newb questions.  I installed all the libraries it said were missing.
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no, xmms is an audio player. it does however have a mplayer plugin to launch mplayer to play the movies for you...

[Jon_J]

I installed mplayer-bvdd-iwmmxt from your feed meanie.
Then I installed the xmmsmplayer plugin, then verified that the plugin was enabled in xmms, then tried to play my movie, but nothing happened. xmms didn't even give me an hourglass or clock (wait icon).
I opened a console and issued "mplayer --help", but I got command not found.

[Antikx]

I think you have to type mplayer2 --help

[Jon_J]

I renamed it to mplayer and it did launch the help in the console.
I am not going to use commandline to just play a movie.
How am I supposed to remember to type all of this without having it written on a sheet of paper in front of me?

mplayer /data/Movie_Files/UltimateBet.net-Poker-Tutorial.mp4 (that doesn't include the command switches)
I have some movies that I don't want to rename, like this one,
lost.223.live.together.die.alone.pt1.hdtv-lol.avi
If I get just one character mistyped, it won't work anyway.

I tried using xmms with the plugin and mplayer2, renamed to mplayer. I can't even get my movie to "Add" to the playlist, I've tried this 5 or 6 times.

I'm going to uninstall mplayer anyway, since it took 4MB when I installed it, and Cacko's movie player works so much easier.

[Meanie]

I renamed it to mplayer and it did launch the help in the console.
I am not going to use commandline to just play a movie.
How am I supposed to remember to type all of this without having it written on a sheet of paper in front of me?

mplayer /data/Movie_Files/UltimateBet.net-Poker-Tutorial.mp4 (that doesn't include the command switches)
I have some movies that I don't want to rename, like this one,
lost.223.live.together.die.alone.pt1.hdtv-lol.avi
If I get just one character mistyped, it won't work anyway.

I tried using xmms with the plugin and mplayer2, renamed to mplayer. I can't even get my movie to "Add" to the playlist, I've tried this 5 or 6 times.

I'm going to uninstall mplayer anyway, since it took 4MB when I installed it, and Cacko's movie player works so much easier.
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i think you are barking at the wrong tree here.

mplayer2 which you installed is cacko's mplayer. they are the same binary but repackages for pdaXrom file structure.
cacko just uses a different front end, namely kino2 while there are many other ways of launching movies in pdaXrom, ie via xmms, via rox or any other file managers...

btw, there is also a file completion function in bash where you just type the beginning of the filename and then hit the tab key

[Jon_J]

you say launch it via xmms, then why won't it launch via xmms? and what is wrong with the playlist function? I should be able to add a movie to the playlist and have it appear in the list.
EDIT:
I just typed all that into the console, the movie plays sideways with numbers running through it from the console behind it.
If it plays in a console, why not in xmms?
EDIT2:
The mplayer plugin is listed in the Audio I/O Plugins, Is this right?
Where is the Video Plugins? There is no tab for Video, so I must assume that the mplayer plugin being located under the Audio Plugins is why it doesn't work.

[Jon_J]

I figured out that xmms doesn't recognise *.mp4
Is there a xmms config file somewhere? I cannot seem to find it.
I can play this *.mp4 file in the console using mplayer
I can load into the playlist, and play an *.avi file in xmms with the xmmsmplayer plugin.
I cannot load into the playlist, or play this mp4 file, which I just renamed to "poker.mp4"
What is wrong with mp4?
The mplayer description says it plays these and it does, but xmms, won't recognize this extension.

[Jon_J]

I renamed this *.mp4 file extension to *.avi and it NOW loads into xmms playlist and plays.
But this isn't really an *.avi file, because if I rename the extension to *.avi on my desktop, it won't play and causes a lot of error messages.
I also know it isn't an *.avi file because the website where I downloaded it from said it was a Quicktime filetype, and this is a commercial website, not some offbeat movie site.

What is wrong with xmms and the *.mp4 extension?

[jpmatrix]

mplayer /data/Movie_Files/UltimateBet.net-Poker-Tutorial.mp4 (that doesn't include the command switches)
I have some movies that I don't want to rename, like this one,
lost.223.live.together.die.alone.pt1.hdtv-lol.avi

[OFFTOPIC]
Texas hold'em player ?

[Jon_J]

mplayer /data/Movie_Files/UltimateBet.net-Poker-Tutorial.mp4 (that doesn't include the command switches)
I have some movies that I don't want to rename, like this one,
lost.223.live.together.die.alone.pt1.hdtv-lol.avi

[OFFTOPIC]
Texas hold'em player ?
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I haven't played hold'em, but have been watching "Poker After Dark" on NBC TV
The tutorial explains the button and the blinds. I didn't quite understand how that aspect of betting worked, and Annie Duke explains this pretty well.

Anyway, How do I make xmms understand that *.mp4 is a valid mediatype?
like I said before, the mp4 plays in a console, but xmms doesn't recognize it.

[Jon_J]

I still cannot get xmms to recognize or play a *.mp4 file. It won't play and it won't load into the playlist. it does play with mplayer in the console, and I do have the xmmsmplayer plugin installed and enabled.
I used MIME-Editor in Rox filer and added .mp4 to the "Quicktime" mimetype.
I found xmms config file here /home/root/.xmms/
I 'll post it here. Where or how do I add mp4 filetype to this config file?

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[ESD]
use_remote=FALSE
use_oss_mixer=TRUE
remote_host=localhost
remote_port=16001
buffer_size=3000
prebuffer=25

[xmms]
allow_multiple_instances=FALSE
use_realtime=FALSE
always_show_cb=TRUE
convert_underscore=TRUE
convert_%20=TRUE
show_numbers_in_pl=TRUE
snap_windows=TRUE
save_window_positions=TRUE
dim_titlebar=TRUE
use_pl_metadata=TRUE
get_info_on_load=FALSE
get_info_on_demand=TRUE
eq_doublesize_linked=TRUE
no_playlist_advance=FALSE
sort_jump_to_file=FALSE
smooth_title_scroll=TRUE
use_backslash_as_dir_delimiter=FALSE
player_x=51
player_y=118
player_shaded=FALSE
player_visible=TRUE
shuffle=TRUE
repeat=TRUE
doublesize=TRUE
autoscroll_songname=TRUE
timer_mode=1
vis_type=1
analyzer_mode=0
analyzer_type=1
analyzer_peaks=TRUE
scope_mode=0
vu_mode=1
vis_refresh_rate=0
analyzer_falloff=3
peaks_falloff=1
playlist_x=164
playlist_y=214
playlist_width=300
playlist_height=232
playlist_shaded=FALSE
playlist_visible=FALSE
playlist_transparent=FALSE
playlist_font=-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-koi8-r
use_fontsets=FALSE
mainwin_use_xfont=FALSE
mainwin_font=-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-koi8-r
playlist_position=0
equalizer_x=20
equalizer_y=136
snap_distance=10
equalizer_visible=FALSE
equalizer_shaded=FALSE
equalizer_active=FALSE
equalizer_autoload=FALSE
easy_move=TRUE
use_eplugins=FALSE
always_on_top=FALSE
sticky=FALSE
equalizer_preamp=0
random_skin_on_play=FALSE
pause_between_songs=FALSE
pause_between_songs_time=2
mouse_wheel_change=8
show_wm_decorations=FALSE
eqpreset_default_file=dir_default.preset
eqpreset_extension=preset
equalizer_band0=0
equalizer_band1=0
equalizer_band2=0
equalizer_band3=0
equalizer_band4=0
equalizer_band5=0
equalizer_band6=0
equalizer_band7=0
equalizer_band8=0
equalizer_band9=0
output_plugin=/usr/lib/xmms/Output/libesdout.so
disabled_iplugins=
url_history_length=0
generic_title_format=%p - %t
filesel_path=/data/Movie_Files/

[xmms-mplayer]
vo=0
ao=0
zoom=FALSE
framedrop=FALSE
idx=FALSE
onewin=FALSE
xmmsaudio=FALSE
extra=-vo bvdd