Re: LUG: VLC and Multimedia Keyboard keys - Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:13:46 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: VLC and Multimedia Keyboard keys

From : "Ed Anderson" <nilbus@nilbus.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:13:46 -0400

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed. :D It has some quirks, but it
works well enough for me.

Ed

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:27 PM, <nisink@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> 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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