Re: LUG: VLC and Multimedia Keyboard keys - Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:27:42 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: VLC and Multimedia Keyboard keys

From : nisink@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:27:42 -0400

You can try totem movie player, it supports multimedia keys and it is
supposed to support streaming (i have gotten this to work with some
streaming formats). I personally don't like totem b/c its rather picky
with formats even with the correct codecs (at least thats my experience).
Its worth a try though.

> I'm having some trouble getting my multimedia keyboard's keys (stop,
> play, next, etc) to work with VLC media player. I've googled it and
> found lots of other people with the problem but no real solutions. If
> you have experience with this, then maybe you can tell me how you got
> it working. But I'm not holding my breath to find a solution to that
> here.
>
> Instead, what I probably ought to do is look for a new media player
> that does what I need, namely:
> - supports multimedia keys (directly or through other helpers)
> - supports streaming online radio (like http://di.fm)
> - is somewhat stable
>
> Rhythmbox supports the features, but is unfortunately not very
> stable... crashes, hangs, is slow loading streams, does weird things
> sometimes.
>
> Lots of other media players don't support streaming audio like I need.
>
> What media players have you run across that might be what I'm looking for?
>
> Ed
>

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