JillSwift

yay!

You can have a look at the menu icon by editing the menu (right click on the menu icon, select edit menu"). Perhaps it has a switch set that it should not.

Well, I really didn't think they were, but . . . .

 

Anyway - it did work. Any idea why it won't start when I push the mplayer icon? The executable command, mplayer, is in usr/bin.

I have a suspicion: mplayer configures without GUI support by default now.

The GUI is launched with "gmplayer" (alternatively, "mplayer -gui"). See if that gives you any information, yes?

P.S. I've discovered that 3dnow and 3dnowext support is very unstable in mplayer at the moment, that's why it's been disabled.

%URL% and %FILE% aren't literal, replace them with a URL to stream from or file name with content to play.

Trying to start mplayer from console gives me the following report. Of course it will not start. Any idea why? I usually use mplayer and xine. Are there viable alternatives? Thanks, Kieth

 

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ mplayer

MPlayer SVN-1.rc3.0.r29554.2plf2010.0-4.4.1 © 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

3DNow supported but disabled

3DNowExt supported but disabled

Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

 

I un-installed it, then re-installed it, to see if it would add any dependent packages. But no, nothing changed.

I've been wondering the same thing about the 3DNow support. I can't find an answer anywhere. I'm wondering if it's a stability issue.

As soon as there's a stable version on their trunk, I'm going to compile it myself to get all the bells & whistles.

At any rate, mplayer functions fine for me.

Search for CPUFreq in the MCC module "install and remove software", install "cpufreq", "cpufreqd" and "cpufrequtils". Reboot to load the module.

That should do the trick, unless Mandriva's default kernel simply doesn't have support for scaling. Someone with more knowledge on this subject feel free to chime in :D

If I recall correctly, you can "right-click" ("left-click" if you're left-handed) the applet to get a menu that will let you select the frequency scale manually or set the scaling policy.

qt4 :D

GNOME uses GTK natively, so using the GTK version of the app will have least impact on memory for not having to load new libraries.

If you mean frequency scaling, there's a panel applet that'll both monitor the current clock scale and let you set the scaling policy.

It's called (unsurprisingly :) ) "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor".

Deluge will do that.