On 13/06/2020 04:26, Russell L. Harris wrote: > In Debian 10, I need to view a mp4 video which I downloaded. Using > the menu: > > APPLICATIONS -> Multimedia -> mpv Media Player menu > > I end up with a window labeled MPV with a black screen on which is > what appears to be a START icon (an arrow) and the line: > > Drop files or URLs to play here. > > Would someone kindly tell me how to make use of the mpv player? The > display makes no sense to me. Is not "drop" an operation pertaining > to the Window$ environment? How does one go about dropping a file or > URL on > the window in the Linux environment?
mpv is a command-line application. That window is a minimal gui just to be launched by desktop environments. For a full gui player, try smplayer, which is a gui wrapper for mpv. There are other options as well, but this is the one I use. -- You have many friends and very few living enemies. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
