Thanks for the help on this Sridhar. I have it installed on a Mandrake 8.0 and am looking forward to the GUI version. --- Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For help, try "mplayer" and "man mplayer" at a > command line. > > To output to a text file, try "mplayer > filename" > and "man mplayer > > filename". In both cases, the output of the commands > will be outputted as > plain text to the filename of your choice. You can > then print the file. > > At its simplest level, you can open a movie like > this: > > $ mplayer -vo x11 filename > > According to the MPlayer site, the addition of a GUI > will occur in a matter > of days. You may want to wait till then. > > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:24, D. Hoyem wrote: > > Hi All, > > I just read through all of this months archive's > on > > mplayer. I had this instaled on my Mandrake 8.0 > one > > time, but when I started reading how to use it ie > the > > help file, my eyes started to cross, etc. It was > very > > difficult for me to determine how to play a movie > on > > it. Is there someplace where I could print out > the > > commands and try and learn them or is there a > simple > > command line that I could use and it would work > with > > most file?? > > I appreciate your patience with this newbie. > > Don > > > > --- Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > > Red Hat's GCC is _not_, as some will tell you, > > > > > > buggy. It is just fussier and > > > > > > > less forgiving with code. Mandrake's GCC is a > > > > > > pruning from the (then > > > > > > > unfinished) GCC 3.0 tree. It was called 2.96 > > > > > > simply because the number had > > > > > > > been vacated by the GCC developers (to avoid > > > > > > confusion with Red Hat's > > > > > > > version). In other words, Mandrake does not > use > > > > > > Red Hat's GCC. MPlayer works > > > > > > > flawlessly in Mandrake 8.0 when configured > with > > > > > > the --disable-gcc-checking > > > > > > > flag before compilation. > > > > > > It compiles with GCC 2.95 in Mandrake 7.2 with X > > > 4.0.1 but does not work. > > > Just spent a whole week fiddling with it. > > > > > > -- > > > Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > > > MandrakeSoft? > > > > > Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute > with Yahoo! Messenger > > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan. > "There are two major products that come from > Berkeley: > LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a > coincidence." > -- Jeremy S. Anderson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
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