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muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Here's xmms v1.2.11, thanks to Dougal's prompting. Start with Menu->Multimedia->XMMS

If you want to change the appearance, download alternative skins from here:

http://www.xmms.org/skins.php

Save the relevant tar.gz file, without extracting, to /root/.xmms/Skins, then when Xmms is open, press Alt+S and Xmms will recognise any gzipped skins in /root/.xmms/Skins directory.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

This package contains the locales for xmms. Just extract to /.

stevenbinion · Posted: Tue 18 Dec 2007, 14:28 Post subject:

Is there any chance you'll be including the locales in a future ,pet?

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

What is the problem with just extracting the xmms locales .tar.bz2, above, to / ?

The reason they are separated from the main .pet is just to get the .pet under the forum upload limit of 1M.

willhunt · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

just a bit off topic but has anyone tried xmms2 yet?
Thnaks for the pet with the mplayer plugin I think
it makes a nice interface for all media types

Dougal · Posted: Thu 20 Dec 2007, 07:47 Post subject: Re: thanks

willhunt · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

Thanks dougal could you post those pet files I made one of mpd and gmpc but they are not streaming just remote controls does xmms2
stream them also?

Dougal · Posted: Fri 21 Dec 2007, 10:01 Post subject:

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4944 Location: Australia

Just adding some information: there are extra XMMS input plugins here -
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/xmms-1.2.10-by-Dougal/xmms-plugins/

but these install to locations compatible with Dougal's earlier XMMS v1.2.10 dotpup.
To use these plugins with muggins' XMMS, you would need to shift them from /usr/local/lib/xmms/input to /usr/lib/xmms/input

Similar story with XMMS skins from here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13056

Regarding the Xmms-MPlayer plugin from http://xmmsmplayer.sourceforge.net/ ... forget it!
I compiled this plugin some time ago and abandoned it in disgust. With XMMS and MPlayer running at the same time CPU usage is significantly higher, and poor video playback performance will then be noticeable on older computers.
XMMS is great for audio, but if you want to play video ... use a video player.

cb88 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA

so you are saying that the plugins compiled for 1.2.10 still work in 1.2.11?
that is good to know!

dotpups.de is down right now too bad....

cb88 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA

if i install 1.2.11 over top of 1.2.10 all the plugins from the old version are detected.... but what i wonder is if i have actually upgraded to 1.2.11 i suppose I have since the changes in the release are small i think any opinions/ideas on this?

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2008, 20:23 Post subject:

If the old files actually got overwritten, then you did. Otherwise, if the two different packages installed to two different places, it depends on which one comes up first through the path (I suppose that's why the which command is named that).

Easy method: Run XMMS, then right-click it and go to "about" (right at the top). If that has the correct version number, then you probably updated.

cb88 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA

i dun did that.... and it says 1.2.11...

willhunt · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

I installed the mplayer plugin it works great but does not enque
3gp or flv but mplayer plays both am I doing something wrong?

Eyes-Only · Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2008, 17:47 Post subject:

Thanks for listing the URL for the skins Muggins! And gee... here I thought I had them all. LOL! Seriously though, they had a lot of very nice skins there that don't ever get added to the "theme packs" you see floating around, or normally tend to get packaged with XMMS, and that's too bad as there truly are some great, artistic ones at that site. Ah well... That's life.

Thanks again mate!

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"