Xine annoying seek behavior?

From: IsaacKuo (mechdan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: 30 Nov 2004 08:05:21 -0800

When using the seek +/- N sec keys in Xine, it seems to seek to
the nearest key frame to the desired time rather than the exact
time desired. This is okay if the time increment is very large,
like 30 seconds or 1 minute. However, this is incredibly
annoying for a short time skip of 10 seconds or less, because
the nearest key frame is often in the OPPOSITE direction of
desired.

For example, when trying to skip forward 5 seconds, Xine will
instead skip BACKWARD to the last key frame. When hitting the
key rapidly to browse through a video, it will just sit there
stuttering back to the same old key frame.

Is there any way to get Xine to always skip in the desired
direction? For example, when trying to skip forward, it should
never skip backward but should instead go to the next key frame.
This is the way Zoomplayer* works, and it's very convenient for
seeking using the mousewheel.

Alternatively, are there other good video player programs which
don't have this annoying behavior? I haven't tried mplayer yet
because I'm running Debian and haven't managed to get it to work
yet (a Knoppix install; old fashioned Debian style).

Oh, also--is there any way to get Xine's menu font to be much
larger? It's impossible to read from across the room on my
TV set. I simply go by visual guesstimate and rote memorization,
but it's completely unusable for my wife.
Thanks!

Isaac Kuo

*Zoomplayer is a Windows program.