Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 12:52 -0500 schrieb Nat Gross: > > 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 > Nat, No right-click-menu. go to Applications-Multimedia-Mplayer Roger
