mplayer, is there supposed to be a GUI?

jerome187 · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 584

when i run mplayer from the KDE Run Command thing i get nothin, when i run it in a knosole i get list of instructions, isn't there a GUI for it? i dont wanna have to enter a bunch of cryptic codes when i want to watch some video

jerome187 · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 584

oops, i shoulda put this in multimedia, my bad :oops:

drexelslacker · n00b Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 7

gmplayer is the name of the executable to launch mplayer with a GUI. If you use KDE, kmplayer is a a good choice too. Just do an "emerge kmplayer" kmplayer is both a GUI and acts as a KPart so that you can watch videos inside KDE apps, like www.apple.com/trailers/ in Konqueror.

DrexelSlacker

-=Beelzebub=- · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 30 Location: ~beelzebub

LornKnight · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject:

Use gmplayer instead of mplayer. Its nice, and it has theme support also. Check out the mplayer website for themes.
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captjack · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Japan

jerome187

I hate to tell you this, but if you had done a quick search for: mplayer gui you would have found these threads:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=48826&highlight=mplayer+gui

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=51374&highlight=mplayer+gui

Since you already have it installed. Just make the changes recommended in either of these PREVIOUS threads and you'll be up and running mplayer with gui support.

Good luck.

cj

pinnockio · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 162

Hello,

Go to your home directory and put in your .mplayer a config file with this line in it:
gui=yes

Then run mplayer and the gui-interface should pop up,... .

Kind regards,

A belgian Gentoo user