GNOME Media Player Adds Volume control; 2nd release in 2 days

By , Published March 27, 2010

GNOME Media Player has issued a second stable release in as many days, this time adding volume control support alongside numerous bug fixes.

This feature was much requested by users and gives the multi-engine player even more oomph in the race alongside its rivals.

It’s also great to see the GMP team developing so actively – I can barely keep up!

Install
If you have the GMP PPA added then this update will be ready and waiting. For users yet to try you can add the GMP PPA in both Karmic and Lucid using the following command: -

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-media-player-development/development
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-media-player

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT

    I know!!! It seems like you are testing Lucid a lot! ;)

  • Anonymous

    I can’t believe that a stable of release of media player did not have a volume control scheme… I guess it is good it came quick then

    • Anonymous

      I agree, seems very strange! Although, the media keys on my laptop control system sound, not application sound, so I find myself almost exclusively controlling volume that way.

      I’m gonna have to give this app a try now, it looks promising.

  • cmd

    i’d really like CTRL + S for screenshots, this is the first thing i missed when I switched from Totem

  • manny

    is this totem ?

    what happened to totem ?

  • Anonymous

    please please let me know how to lauch gnome media player with gstreamer as default as it select the auto-select option which is sadly xine and extremely faulty with mp4 files

    • http://www.expatsinksa.com/ Bilal Akhtar

      Have you installed the libxine1-ffmpeg package? This package provides plugins for playing MPEG files. This package is set in the Recommends section of the PPA packages, so people who have configured apt to not fetch recommends won’t get the package automatically.
      BTW, You can also set GStreamer to run by default when you click the menu shortcut. Follow these steps in a terminal:-
      1) cd /usr/share/applications
      2) gksu gedit gnome-media-player.desktop
      3) In the Exec line replace gnome-media-player with gnome-media-player -e gstreamer

      • Anonymous

        thanku very veryyyyy veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy much now i love gnome media player

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  • anduu

    Seriously…they are just adding volume control support now!?

    I’m sorry but stuff like that is pretty much a given for any media application.

    • http://twitter.com/gebagu Grigori

      seriously, c’mon, they just started developing … ;)

  • pelle

    They should’ve made it an in-place (horizontal) volume control, instead of a pop-up vertical volume control IMHO.

    • No_Asylum

      No, I disagree. Doing that would make the progress bar smaller and therefore less accurate for seeking. They did it the best way.

  • James

    Heh, I like the Doctor who video being used XD

    Second time I have seen it here?

  • http://juick.com/renya renya

    ~$ gnome-media-player
    gnome-media-player: error while loading shared libraries: libvlc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    :(

    • http://juick.com/renya renya

      ~$ vlc –version
      VLC media player 1.1.0-git The Luggage (revision exported)

      • Bashan

        Same problem here!

      • http://juick.com/renya renya

        All is goog with
        ~$ vlc –version
        VLC media player 1.0.5 Goldeneye

        • Bashan

          Thx! Works very well now!

          • http://www.elsoftwarelibre.wordpress.com/ Martin

            THe solution is use VLC 1.05? I use VLC 1.1.0 and I can’t use GNOME media player because “”gnome-media-player: error while loading shared libraries: libvlc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”"

  • Anonymous

    I must say i really like this player. Im a VLC user since i first used linux beacause it can play anything without any problem. The main disadvantage of VLC on linux (except that it doesn’t look so much like a gnome app)is the fact that i cant make it cooperate with the screensaver (even though the Disable Screensaver option is enabled). Although its has a very big advantage (for my needs) over Gnome Media Player and this is the Aspect Ratio option. Because almost every HD movie is in 1280×544 instead of 1280×720 and since its not in 16:9 ratio you get two big black spaces on the bottom and top of the tv. So i would really appreciate if this feature could be added on Gnome player. If this can happen, then i need nothing else in order to make it my default media player. Thank you in advance.

    • http://cldx.blogspot.com/ Joern Konopka

      +1 for the Aspect Ratio Feature,thats probably the Setting i use the most within VLC since almost none of my Videos match my 1440×900 Resolution, maybe theres a Way to create some default behaviour for different Video Resolutions within the Settings? So i wouldnt have to manually adjust it everytime i start another video..

  • Anonymous

    Which was the first release? The one which you can select which engine to use? That was released on tuesday. I know cuz I upgraded it then and I tested it dude.

    Peace!

  • pt

    sadly none of these media players have the useful bookmark feature smplayer has, which resumes playback where you left, when you reopen the file.