Notices

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.

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.

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?

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.