Dne út 4. února 2014 Calvin Morrison napsal(a):
> why would it use arts? Nobody has used arts for years, even when KDE3
> was around, people were sticking with alsa and oss. I would rather
> trinity go away from arts in the long run.
>
> On 4 February 2014 13:20, Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...> wrote:
> > Dne út 4. února 2014 Calvin Morrison napsal(a):
> >> my vote is for kmplayer, since it uses the mplayer backend... which
> >> has lots of active development (see mplayer2 and mpv), but those are
> >> both drop in replacements.
> >>
> >> Calvin
> >>
> >> On 4 February 2014 13:09, Darrell Anderson <darrella@...>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> >>I've had success with 'xine' 'kmplayer' (very slow) 'mplayer' (ok
> >> >>but full screen) and 'kaffeine"
> >> >
> >> > Yes, but those apps are not default apps. Kaboodle is the only
> >> > base app that plays videos.
> >> >
> >> > Xine is indeed a dependency for several Trinity apps, but all of
> >> > those apps are not base installation apps, like amarok, kaffeine,
> >> > kmplayer, etc.
> >> >
> >> > Darrell
> >
> > KMPlayer for me very upset that the audio output does not use the
> > arts. As a result, the volume controls 'master' instead to control
> > only its own volume, as it does kaffeine.
> >
> > Slavek
> > --

Sure, it is not necessary to use the arts. But it is a "bug" that instead 
of its own volume KMPlayer affects the 'master' volume. I want to be able 
to silence only video. But KMPlayer silences all. I remember when it was 
possible to use the arts output, volume work "properly".

Slavek
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