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On 12/29/2015 5:15 PM, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> Another MC user here. Here are a couple of entries I've inserted at |
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> the top of my ~/.config/mc/mc.ext file. The first entry in mc.ext that |
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> matches the extension takes precedence, so you want your custom entries |
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> at the top. What these entries do is to launch an xterm. The xterm is |
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> what actually launches mplayer. All the spew from mplayer appears in |
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> the xterm, not in MC. If I want to kill the player part way through a |
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> song/video, I can do it from the small xterm. The xterm automatically |
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> disappears as soon as the song/video finishes. |
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> # |
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> #FLAC and WAV and MP3 files (to free up mc console) |
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> regex/i/\.(wav|flac|mp3)$ |
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> Open=/usr/bin/xterm -e /usr/bin/mplayer %d/%p & |
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> # |
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> # Videos |
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> regex/i/\.(avi|mov|mp4|mpeg)$ |
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> Open=/usr/bin/xterm -e /usr/bin/mplayer %d/%p & |
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> This should also work for you with VLC. Substitute "vlc", or |
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> whatever, for "mplayer". This "indirection" method is useful for *ANY* |
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> program that spews diagnostics/whatever to the console that launched it. |
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> E.g. I get dignostics/etc with abiword. |
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Thank you! |
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I will try this out. |
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That's a way of doing things that never would have occurred to me. |
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-Skippy |
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