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hades

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Preview doesn't work
« on: December 06, 2004, 01:12:07 PM »
I'm using aMule one Suse 9.2 (I am a linux newby).
I've installed vlc and Mplayer but when I click on "preview" nothing happens (no error, nothing started)
It is also the same problem with mp3 files.
I guess my system isn't well configured. Who can help me?
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Re: Preview doesn't work
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2004, 03:44:10 PM »
u must set in preferences/directories which program you want set to see preview
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Re: Preview doesn't work
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2004, 07:21:19 PM »
saxtro is right.

I suggest you to use the following as your inoput for mplayer:
xterm -T "aMule's preview" -iconic -e mplayer -idx

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Re: Preview doesn't work
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2004, 09:44:15 PM »
Yep it works!  :)
Thanks for your help.
However on win there is a part-plugin for vlc.
- Has emule already knows which parts of the file have already been downloaded and which not, it passes these info to vlc so that it is very easy to navigate in the video file (fwd/bwd).
Is there something similar under linux?
- which player is better to preview part (vlc vs mplayer)?
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Re: Preview doesn't work
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2004, 10:28:17 PM »
with the -idx parameter in mplayer, mplayer will be able to navigate through the part files.

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Re: Preview doesn't work
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2004, 10:52:22 AM »
Is there a way to preview non-media files (i.e. archive)?
Under emule you can preview almost everything as soon as you've got the first and last chunks.
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Re: Preview doesn't work
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2004, 04:46:11 PM »
no. eMule works in windows. in windows there's a central registry (the windows registry) where every file extension has an app associated. in Linux there's no such thing so no, you can't open non-media files. in fact, you can't even open non-video files iirc :P
There's an up-comming X standard which covers the mime file-types. if it becomes popular enough in some time, maybe aMule could begin to implement it. but right now, that is far away IMHO ;-)

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Re: Preview doesn't work
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2004, 08:05:50 AM »
thanks for this pretty clear explaination.
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