On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 1:06pm, MHR wrote > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: >> >> What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)? The CentOS >> version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the >> default repos. And this doesn't appear to be a very recent feature >> (googling reveals references to it that are over a year old). >> > > You made me look, and I found that I was missing a couple of packages. > I now have: > > mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf.noarch > mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.x86_64 > mplayer-skins-1.8-1.nodist.rf.noarch > mplayer-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64 > mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.i386 > mplayer-docs-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64 > > These are the most recent imports from rpmforge. That may be, but that's actually a *very* old version of mplayer. The most recent "release" of mplayer is 1.0rc2, and *that's* dated 10/7/07 (see <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ChangeLog>). Most folks run SVN snapshots of mplayer -- rpmfusion's package for Fedora, e.g., is a SVN snapshot from 9/3/08. And even that is too old for a lot of things. For my HTPC, e.g., I compiled mplayer from my own SVN checkout so I could use VDPAU, which only got added within the last few months. > BUT: I looked again, and the man page remains the same.... I even > checked the mplayer home site, and neither option is mentioned in > their documentation. I see -heartbeat-cmd on <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html>. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF