media player on dsl0.9.0

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: media player on dsl0.9.0
started by: outanet

Posted by outanet on Dec. 03 2004,15:18

After downloading and evaluating dsl0.9.0 for a few hrs now, ive come to the conclusion, its a fantastic os made much better.
The inclusion of firefox as a default browser, must have scraped a few knuckles as it was wedged in (10m on a 50m os) but it was worth it, this brings dsl to all those people who cant tell the difference between browsers (like my mother) as it performs flawlessly. Much of the space was donated by the removal of xmms, which has been replaced by a sweet lil 6 button gui fronting 2 command line players (mpg123 and ogg123) providing a random play function for files in ~/media .
Obviously there are limitations, no next or back buttons or track info, and it doesnt seem to recurse the directories, but in my eyes it is still a stroke of genious. another point is that to access other drives (no doubt holding music) the media directory must be replaced by a link to the music drive.
Im guessing work has continued on this, there is no real reason why the DSL media player cannot be polished to display the track info spat out by the player, the media directory could be chosen, etc without taking much in the way of space.

beautifuly done!

Posted by Max on Dec. 04 2004,00:53

Another easy way is to navigate to your music directory with emelfm, have the /media directory open in the other pane, highlight all of the songs you want to play and then hit the SymLink button. That way you can put in songs from different sources.

Posted by bummer on Dec. 04 2004,01:03

dont it play video too? if its a front end to mpg123 and ogg123 cant it front mplayer?

Posted by roberts on Dec. 04 2004,01:40

It plays video, mpg, files. It is also a front-end for enjoympeg.

Posted by hasty on Dec. 04 2004,21:10

Oouch!

Posted by fubar on Dec. 05 2004,17:49

What about DVDs?

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 08 2004,10:03

xmms was better and we are most of us sorry to lose it. however firefox is much more useful, but it would be great to get back scite and xmms.

Posted by RickS on Dec. 20 2004,02:41

After experimenting with some other distros I got back to DSL and loaded it on my Thinkpad 600e. I really appreciate DSL's light weight, but I'm hung up on an inability to play an audio CD. I find /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/scd0, as is /dev/sr0 which appears in dmesg to be the cdrom device. /dev/cdaudio is a link to /dev/cdrom. I can mount a data cd and view its contents but using emelFM I can't see any audio files on any of the devices. I get a Permission denied message even if I'm logged in as root. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Posted by boogart on Dec. 26 2004,17:19

Quote (ico2 @ Dec. 08 2004,05:03)

xmms was better and we are most of us sorry to lose it. however firefox is much more useful, but it would be great to get back scite and xmms.

sorry, but dsl 0.9.1 comes with firefox [/B] and [B] xmms!
download it and have fun! :;):

Posted by boogart on Dec. 26 2004,17:27

Quote (RickS @ Dec. 19 2004,21:41)

Starting with dsl i had the same problems. I found a way to mount audio-filesystems and play audio-cd´s easily:

using the window-manager right-click on the desk.
browse in the context-menu to --> apps --> sound/mpeg/VoIP --> xmms --> xmms play cd

this will play the audio-media in your favorite cdrom-device.

I was also unable to browse the files through emelfm and when i try to mount audio-cd´s I always get a failure-code.
Hope that helps you...

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 26 2004,17:41

audio/video CDs and DVDs are played directly rather than mounted, so that's probably why you'd get errors.

Posted by PipingFool on Dec. 29 2004,12:35

Maybe it's just me but.... isn't firefox with it's 10Mb totally and completely against DSL's policy of being a damn light/damn small/damn fast/damn usefull/nearly complete/nearly perfect linux distro? I feel the loss of xmms (and what else?) is greater than the gain of a (for this distro) mammoth browser with functions I'm sure I won't use in a million years.

10Mb of a 50MB distro. I'd call that a mammoth. That's one fifth (1/5) or twenty (20) percent of the entire distro! Surely there is more usefull stuff around (like xmms!!!) that deserves a place in the distro (xmms!!!!)

To be honest, I've tried Fire on my winbox and removed it 10 minutes after installation. No, I don't like it at all. Yes, I hate being stuck with MS and Netscrape's products. Yes, I don't like Mo* and other *zilla derived browsers either. I thought DSL's browser was refreshing: basic, fast and better at representing some websites than all of the other competitors to MS and Netscrape's stuff.

So, please, DSL-team, gives us back our xmms/scyp/whatever else you have thrown out. Firefox is the worst thing that could have happened to the distro that has started to get me to experiment with and learn about linux (at least in my eyes).

PS: Yes, I know: I can download xmms. I don't want to download it. I want it installed. Like Scype. Why not have Firefox as a download?

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 30 2004,05:38

xmms is back as part of the basic livecd in version 0.9.1

This is a special version of Firefox so it probably takes up less than the ~10MB that the old Firefox 0.8 extension used.

If you really don't want Firefox, you can either go back to version 0.8.4 or you can remaster 0.9.1 yourself to remove Firefox.

Most people here seem to approve of the Firefox addition and a full-featured web browser is almost a necessity these days.

Posted by John on Dec. 30 2004,06:42

Not only do you have XMMS, but you have a choice of 3 browsers, Links, Dillo, and FireFox. Yes, Links-Hacked is gone, but you still have a text version of Links and the exact same Dillo. The FireFox version in DSL is only 6MB, Links-Hacked compressed was nearly 3MB with dependencies. A hell of a lot of time was spent getting it all to fit and work, probably 50 hours total between Kent, Robert and myself.

It boils down to two choices...

Choice 1:
XMMS
Scite
Links-Hacked
Dillo

Choice 2:
XMMS
Beaver
Links (text mode)
Dillo
FireFox

Most would say that choice 2 is for the collective greater good.
(yet, I know that no matter what choices we make someone will be unhappy)