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Re: How to run mplayer?

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Originally Posted by joppu (Post 502634)

You type "mplayer filename.extenstion" to run it.

but if i do that it says file not found?

like i said, clear instructions are needed otherwise most people will avoid it

Re: How to run mplayer?

Yeah, just use SiB and don't use the CLI. Makes mplayer very accessible.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40315

Re: How to run mplayer?

Quote:

Originally Posted by leetut (Post 503897)

but if i do that it says file not found?

like i said, clear instructions are needed otherwise most people will avoid it

It's very straight forward and easy if you have any CLI experience.

Open xterm
use CD to change your directory to where your video is stored
LS to view what's in that directory

To "run" mplayer you simply use mplayer nameofmovie.movieextension.

So if I have umm the movie Gamer on my external memory card I would do;
cd /media/mmc1/Video/ (Becuase I store my video's in a Video directory, you can store them just about anywhere).
mplayer Gamer.m4v

Like others have said though. If you don't want to mess with CLI then just use one of the two GUI front ends. I used KVMPlayer a couple times but I still use CLI myself.

Hope that helps a little more.