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I am a nebie to the Linux world but loving the Nokia 770, I wish to install mplayer but am having a little difficulty, I am trying to find instructions and if there are any additional software that I need.

In addition is there a gui for this app or will I need to run it via the command line? Any help would be much appreciated

Sorry foor the silly questions

2Ricardo1: There is GUI for mplayer already. It was committed to SVN last weekend. The only thing left to do is to make a .deb package. Stay tuned

Cool, any idea of timescale also still looking for advice on install

I have found an earlier post and am in the process of trying to install M-Player using the instructions found on page 2 or 3, are they still valid?

Unlikely. Just install MPlayer from .deb package using application manager. After that you will be able to run it from xterm (also make sure to install xterm before mplayer) by typing 'mplayer some_video_file.avi'. If you find it too difficult, please wait for a few days until the next version gets released.

Cool, thanks

My inexperience hinders me, I will talk to some of the system support and developers at work.

BusyBox v1.01 (Debian 3:1.01-4.osso10) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/ $ mmpmplayer some_video_file.avi
sh: mmpmplayer: not found
/ $
/ $ mplayer some_video_file.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre8-maemo.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: ARM

Creating config file: /home/user/.mplayer/config

/usr/share/fonts/SwaRR4nh.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.
Cannot load font: /usr/share/fonts/SwaRR4nh.ttf

Playing some_video_file.avi.
File not found: 'some_video_file.avi'
Failed to open some_video_file.avi.


Exiting... (End of file)
/ $ mplayer some_video_file.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre8-maemo.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: ARM


/usr/share/fonts/SwaRR4nh.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.
Cannot load font: /usr/share/fonts/SwaRR4nh.ttf

Playing some_video_file.avi.
File not found: 'some_video_file.avi'
Failed to open some_video_file.avi.


Exiting... (End of file)
/ $ mplayer Stargate.Atlantis.S03E01.WS.DSR.XviD-DIMENSION.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre8-maemo.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: ARM


/usr/share/fonts/SwaRR4nh.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.
Cannot load font: /usr/share/fonts/SwaRR4nh.ttf

Playing Stargate.Atlantis.S03E01.WS.DSR.XviD-DIMENSION.avi.
File not found: 'Stargate.Atlantis.S03E01.WS.DSR.XviD-DIMENSION.avi'
Failed to open Stargate.Atlantis.S03E01.WS.DSR.XviD-DIMENSION.avi.


Exiting... (End of file)
/ $

A new build of mplayer with the first experimantal GUI frontend is now available for download from the garage project page: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mplayer/

Please consider this as a beta release, test it and report any bugs or installation issues, your feedback is really appreciated.

Nice. This UI is a good improvement over Mauricio's solution, but it could still use a little polish [do we really need to see the full path of videos?]. I had some problems with one of my mp4 videos going "double speed" and one going "half speed". I don't know if this is a know issue, but since those are the only two in that format, it's really not a problem for me. The flv files from Google Video and YouTube play fine, and all my avi files play just fine as well. Thanks for all your hard work again Serge.

Oh, by the way, what's the report button for? It didn't appear to do anything when I tapped it. [I hope I didn't remotely launch an underground missile somewhere in the world.]

I just noticed if you leave the GMPlauncher open for longer than ~30 seconds it closes automatically. Is it suposed to do that? Also, is there any way you could get the launcher to detect mp3 files as well? Thanks.