> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 17:48 -0500, Nat Gross wrote: > > First off, I do not know what options to use. > > Generally, I've not had to use any. > > > Secondly, for each movie type I will have to use diferent parameters? > > I haven't had to do so. "mplayer something.avi" "mplayer something.mpg" > "mplayer something.mov" have all worked just as simply as that. > > > Third, its not part of the gui any longer; can't right-click and > > choose 'play in mplayer'. > > There should also be some sort of mplayer-gui package (or command, it > might be included in the base package). I haven't installed mplayer the > way that you did, though; but it works in the same way once installed. >Hey, >the only parameter you have to give is the filename of the movie you wanna >watch: mplayer moviename.mpg -> thats all.... >why not using mplayer in the gui? you can open it should be soemewhere in >the multimedia section of gnome...it doesnt seem that you installed the >gui... yum -y install mplayer-gui, this should make it available in gnome too... Ok. It works via 'mplayer <filename>' and that includes avi files (something that didn't work before for me). However, I am having gui problems. Besides not appearing in the right-click menu, entering just 'mplayer' should bring up a gui. yum is having a problem installing the gui: ------------------- Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: mplayer-gui ######################### [1/1] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default: cpio : rename Installed: mplayer-gui.i386 0:1.0-0.37.pre7try2.lvn5 Complete! -------------------- It said complete!. Nada. By the way 'ls /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default' shows 0 files. thanks nat
