Agreed.

Added some seek functions and created a wrapper script for startup that checks for running instance of vsvp as two at the same time don't play nice, and also moved the DB check in there from the main script. Perfectly useable now, but i'm working on a couple of possible additions. But i'm happy as it is. This was a lot of work, the inherent limitations of ffplay for a backend as compared to something like mpv, made it a real challenge, I had to cobble together features in some odd ways, especially since I was going for minimalism of code. Still under 45k for the whole thing.

Sounds like you should use Windows if it's so out-of-the-box-good, good luck with that!

Just posting to second this motion, testdisk/photorec go on every install/iso I do for a long time now, good stuff to have!

Why do you have 4 login managers? What exactly are you running?

Holy cow, spent all day today and part of yesterday just trying to squash one bug, whatever real devs get paid (if they get paid) is not near enough, this stuff is HARD.

But I did it, squashed the only couple of bugs left, this thing is stable and works great! Just need to work on a couple more features and it will be done.

Okay, a year and a half on, still using it, nothing about crypto or AI either one intrudes on my use, the built-in adblocking is very good, the browser hasn't acted homophobic yet, and best part of all: It's NOT Firefox, it actually has human useable scrollbars that don't act retarded.

Got the scraper whupped finally and the gui script modded, looking good! 4 different viewing modes now too. All in under 45 kb.

I'm just gonna say it out loud.

Debian has been steadily spiraling towards more issues, and the reason is:

All their best devs left them 10 years ago.

Possibly. But if Alsa has a bug then maybe not. Looks like they patched the bug you referenced earlier back in September though. Worth a try.

Ahh I gotcha. There may be some integration with the two players but I don't know how combining them with AlsaTune would work. The music player already has a button to open AlsaTune, so that may work just as well as combining them all.

Today i've got to do some prettification of the features I added the last few days, then it's time to tackle a proper hierachical scraper script.

So got all the issues I mentioned previously about the video player fixed, plus a lot of work on behavior and visuals in the last week, it's now running very smoothly and i've set up maximized to be more of a theater mode with everything hidden but the titlebar (and the user's panel(s)). Did some work on the scraper as the code was a little ragged, and added more video formats as ffmpeg will support almost anything.

Only two things left really, first is the scraper as it is currently not hierarchical like the music player script, it just grabs every video it can find in ~/Videos and displays them alphabetically in treeview. It was a real mother to make work right in VSMP, and though I can re-use a bunch of the code for this one, it's still more difficult as I need to display more in treeview and add another level to the scan. Not looking forward to that.

Also should probably add a "Now Playing" bar...maybe.

It's simplistic, but it gets the job done nicely, tiny player (~40kb) and doesn't require anything but alsa, gtk, bash, and fmpeg. No Pulse libs or Pipewire, no QT libs.