Gnome3: Software Preference

twohot · #1 3rd April 2011, 02:27 PM

I see nautilus is not listing mplayer as a possible application/alternative for playing movies and music. This is new with Gnome3 ... it is also limiting. Not that I have a 'beef' with totem, I just prefer mplayer (plain & simple).

Is there any plan to restore this functionality or Is mplayer not complying with some Gnome3 specifications?

***DBelton*** · #2 3rd April 2011, 02:46 PM

I seem to have the option to open movie files with mplayer in nautilus. I get several other players I have installed as well, like VLC and the gnome-mplayer, too.

I have noticed that I get different players listed depending on the type of movie/video file it is. But that is not new to this version of gnome/nautilus.

One thing you can do to possibly get mplayer in your options to open with.

in nautilus, select your movie file, right click, open with, the select 'other application' down at the list. IT will show the recommended applications, but also a button at the bottom to show all applications. click the button to show all applications and find the one you want in the list. Then the next time you want to open a file of that type, it should show up in your list of applications to open it with.

twohot · #3 3rd April 2011, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBelton

in nautilus, select your movie file, right click, open with, the select 'other application' down at the list. IT will show the recommended applications, but also a button at the bottom to show all applications. click the button to show all applications and find the one you want in the list. Then the next time you want to open a file of that type, it should show up in your list of applications to open it with.

Strange. You have the exact description of what I want ... but, It does not happen that way here. Mplayer is conspicuously missing from the 'list of applications'. I get all sorts of other applications listed but mplayer is NOT among them. Why?

I have to find my files with the terminal and issue an mplayer command to watch movies. That's not fair

***DBelton*** · #4 3rd April 2011, 03:21 PM

that is odd. I didn't have any issues with it not showing up in the appllications.

Did you install the mplayer gui?

Code:

yum install mplayer-gui

There is also a gnome-mplayer that is different from the standard mplayer-gui, too

Code:

yum install gnome-mplayer

you could try forcing a reinstall of mplayer and see if that fixes your problems

Code:

yum reinstall mplayer

(these are all from the rpmfusion repos, but I suspect if you have mplayer installed, you have the rpmfusion repos enabled)

twohot · #5 3rd April 2011, 05:27 PM

Just removed mplayer:

Code:

Running Transaction
  Erasing    : gnome-mplayer-minimal-1.0.2-1.fc15.x86_64
  Erasing    : gnome-mplayer-common-1.0.2-1.fc15.x86_64
  Erasing    : mplayer-.0-0.119.20100703svn.fc14.x86_64

Removed:
  mplayer.x86_64 0:1.0-0.119.20100703svn.fc14  

Dependency Removed:
gnome-mplayer-common.x86_64 0:1.0.2-1.fc15
gnome-mplayer-minimal.x86_64 0:1.0.2-1.fc15

Not Smiling at all.

I had already disabled my rawhide repo since it migrated to F16. There is no Repo for F15 yet at rpmfusion.

***DBelton*** · #6 3rd April 2011, 08:15 PM

the rpmfusion rawhide repo's are fro F15

Code:

Name        : mplayer
Arch        : i686
Version     : 1.0
Release     : 0.122.20110227svn.fc15
Size        : 3.3 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : rpmfusion-free-rawhide
Summary     : Movie player playing most video formats and DVDs
URL         : http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
License     : GPLv3+
Description : MPlayer is a movie player that plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM,
            : VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg,
            : FILM, RoQ, and PVA files. You can also use it to watch VCDs,
            : SVCDs, DVDs, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies.
            : It supports a wide range of output drivers including X11, XVideo,
            : DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB etc. There are also
            : nice antialiased shaded subtitles and OSD.
            : Non-default rpmbuild options:
            : --with samba:   Enable Samba (smb://) support
            : --with xmms:    Enable XMMS input plugin support
            : --without amr:  Disable AMR support
            : --with faac:    Enable FAAC support
            : --with libmad:  Enable libmad support
            : --with openal:  Enable OpenAL support
            : --with jack:    Enable JACK support
            : --with arts:    Enable aRts support
            : --with esound:  Enable EsounD support
            : --with dga:     Enable DGA support
            : --with directfb:Enable DirectFB support
            : --with svgalib: Enable SVGAlib support
            : --with nemesi:  Enable libnemesi RTSP support

Code:

Name        : gnome-mplayer
Arch        : i686
Version     : 1.0.2
Release     : 1.fc15
Size        : 345 k
Repo        : installed
From repo   : rpmfusion-free-rawhide
Summary     : An MPlayer GUI, a full-featured binary
URL         : http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/gnomemplayer
License     : GPLv2+
Description : GNOME MPlayer is a simple GUI for MPlayer. It is intended to be a
            : nice tight player and provide a simple and clean interface to
            : MPlayer. GNOME MPlayer has a rich API that is exposed via DBus.
            : Using DBus you can control a single or multiple instances of GNOME
            : MPlayer from a single command. This package provides a
            : full-featured binary.

just enable the 2 rpmfusion rawhide repo's then reinstall your mplayer

rpmfusion-free-rawhide
rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide