Playing videos from kontact

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Monday, July 31, 2017 4:27:48 PM CEST Russ Kepler wrote:
> I have a motion sensitive video monitor and I get a lot of 6 second videos
> in email.  I play them from kmail, using the "Totem" movie player.  The
> issue that I have is that playing is more than a little erratic - sometimes
> I get the player control overlaying the video, sometimes they're up above.
> Sometimes the player doesn't automatically start, most times it does.
> Sometimes the player simply freezes and I have to wait 30 seconds for it to
> start playing again.
> 
> Out of all of these the first is the most intrusive since I can't see the
> video through the controls.  Yes, I can hide them by moving the mouse to the
> video, give it focus and then pressing ctrl-H, but I'd really prefer that
> they just don't appear over the video.  The really frustrating thing is
> that the problem comes and goes - for a while it'll be working well and
> then return to having the controls over the video, a week later it'll be
> back to working well.
> 
> If kmail is just using the system file association and not modifying the
> command line options then I'm at a loss to understand why things keep
> changing.
> 
> Assuming that there's no solution to the issue what video player would you
> recommend to use?

Are the videos simply just attachments, or is there some special magic 
involved in the emails?


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