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    MPlayer laptop playback control

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by ish90an, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. ish90an

    ish90an Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi
    I am using MPlayer on OpenSuse 11.1 and was wondering if there's a way to control playback using the play/pause/forward/rewind/stop controls on my Inspiron 1520 laptop. They work well with Windows Media Player so getting them to work on MPlayer would be quite helpful.
    Thanks
    Ishan
     
    ish90an, Apr 12, 2009
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  2. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Try using something like smplayer as a frontend for mplayer and it should just work. The "plain" mplayer will take a lot of work to get that working, and possibly some hacking.
     
    Pitabred, Apr 13, 2009
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