Calling mplayer users

[Anne Wilson]

Feeling fed-up with xine being broken since the updates, and not really having 
time to bother fixing it at the moment I decided to try mplayer.  I use xine 
mainly for checking my home-made recordings, so the tools I most need are the 
ability to step through the chapters and take a snapshot of the title screen 
for use on the case.  I can't manage to do either of these on mplayer, and 
wonder whether it is the app or my ineptitude.

Stepping through seems to take me just 10 seconds along the time-line - rather 
slow for a long production.  I have 5-minute-ish chapters made, and want to 
jump along them.  I can't find any snapshot tool, and using ksnapshot seems 
to result in either a blank blue screen or a jig-saw series of part-screens, 
overwriting previously saved unrelated pngs.  I've never seen behaviour like 
this before.  Outside of mplayer ksnapshot behaves perfectly.

I guess I'll have to fix xine tomorrow - but is mplayer really so lame?

Anne