[Solved] Mplayer without X

dpetka2001 · l33t Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 804

hello there... i would like to be able to use mplayer to watch videos and movies while i'm setting up a new system and don't have X set up yet...is there also an irc client?? what are the prerequisites that have to be done in order to achieve this?? thanks in advance...

Finswimmer · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:35 am Post subject:

Mplayer can be outputted to framebuffer and it also has a irc system.

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di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

dzalewski · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

If you have framebuffer enabled, you can watch movies using mplayer without having Xorg installed.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MPlayer_on_Framebuffer

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash

Good Luck

dpetka2001 · l33t Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 804