Question about mplayer and mplayer plugin
 

I have a couple questions about mplayer and the mplayer plugin. Ive been trying to figure out whether I actually have mplayer installed because its not showing up in my applications tray. I go to the uninstall portion of the app manager and I see every app in there yet there is none for mplayer. When I try to install it, it tells me that mplayer has already been installed. when I go to xterminal and type mplayer, I get codes on what to do to operate it. Why is it then I dont see an app called mplayer in my applications tray in the uninstall area of the app manager? How would I uninstall it if I needed to do that.

Also, can somebody tell me whether the mplayer plugin works for all of the different formats that I see in the plugins trays? I believe there was one for quicktime, divx, windows videos etc. I tried going to apple trailers to see whether the video would run but nothing. I capped out on my 3 g so I dont know if its because of my slow connection or whether none of these pluins work or maybe its because I dont have mplayer installed or installed properly. All answers would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Question about mplayer and mplayer plugin
 

mplayer is a command line utility. There is no icon for it. It only works on terminal. you just issue a command line example
after that it should play the video.

Re: Question about mplayer and mplayer plugin
 

Ive downloaded command line apps before and even then theres an icon for removal in the uninstall apps section of the application manager. I dont see a single icon for mplayer and anything to tell me that the app actually exist on my n900. I see every icon there from bash to the kernal yet never seen mplayer as an icon in the uninstall portion of the app manager. How does one uninstall mplayer?

Re: Question about mplayer and mplayer plugin
 

Not sure mplayer is even in the "user applications" catalogue. Thought it was just a "back-end".
To answer your question:
A: Re mplayer: The easiest way to use mplayer is with KMPlayer, which is in the repositories (graduated from -testing to extras I think?).

B: Re icons: It is possible to create icons for command line programmes. However, being a command-line-input (CLI) programme, it doesn't come with it to start with. Have a search around here but the procedure includes creating the image, placing it in the correct folder and assigning a script that associates the icon with programme - there might be other processes involved but that's a rough idea.
- If the reason you want a start-up script is so you can assign various pre-sets to mplayer, then it's probably best to have a look at the mplayer website to see what you need to set up. I believe, even on our meagre, device CLI mplayer can save settings?

In short
- if you want easy, use KMPlayer (or SMPlayer for more settings).
- if you want precise, use CLI mplayer and write a script so you can start it from the application menu.