Re: mplayer confusion -- no gui?

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:35:18 -0400, <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

I have been playing with mplayer. I think I am
missing something. I get just a command line utility.
No volume adjustment, no gui controls of any kind.

If I run a video DVD (mplayer /dev/dvd), I get
a video screen with no controls (no sound either!).

If I run streaming audio from the web, it works
fine, but again, it is a command line terminal
with no adjustments.

Is there suppose to be a gui interface for this thing?
What am I missing?

Many thanks,
-T

rpm -qa \*mplayer\*

mplayerplug-in-3.35-1.el4.rf
mplayer-1.0-58_r21812.el4.at
mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1
mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.1.at
mplayer-fonts-1.0-7.at
mplayer-codecs-20061022-1



you need to run the command gmplayer for the mplayer gui to appear, mplayer is actually a command line player. Also there's smplayer (see kde-apps.org) which is to me the best, and of course searching will find you others.

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