Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-19 Thread joe
> On my Arch Linux system, I installed a package called gnome-mplayer > and it works great with audio. Frankly I never tried any videos with > it so far. Dunno if that is what gmplayer used to be or if that is > something different. Thanks Steve. gnome-mplayer seems to be the actual name for gm

Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-19 Thread Steve Holmes
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 02:24:50PM -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: > mplayer --gui video.wmv ... did not work for me. > > I was able to install xine-ui from synaptic, but it makes terrible noises > when running (like very loud white-noise). > > mplayer works fine, except it opens a huge termina

Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Jason Holtzapple wrote: > On 12/17/2010 02:24 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: > > mplayer works fine, except it opens a huge terminal window with a log of > > lines of technical info scrolling while the video runs. Is there any way > > to make that terminal window

Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread Jason Holtzapple
On 12/17/2010 02:24 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: > mplayer works fine, except it opens a huge terminal window with a log of > lines of technical info scrolling while the video runs. Is there any way > to make that terminal window not open (or resize it very small) while > keeping the video window

Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread Stephen
i think if you tag a && to the end of the line it should run the task... I have used that before but i might also be remembering the wrong syntax # mplayer -x -y -z /path/to/file/movie.file && On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:24 PM, wrote: >> From: j...@actionline.com >>> 'gmplayer' is not found on m

Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread joe
> From: j...@actionline.com >> 'gmplayer' is not found on my system or in synaptic. >> 'xine' also is not found, although a lot of packages >> with 'xine' in the names are found, but I can't tell >> which ones would be the main 'xine' program. > > That's really weird, unless the mplayer people have

Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread Matt Graham
From: j...@actionline.com > 'gmplayer' is not found on my system or in synaptic. > 'xine' also is not found, although a lot of packages > with 'xine' in the names are found, but I can't tell > which ones would be the main 'xine' program. That's really weird, unless the mplayer people have changed

Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread joe
> From: j...@actionline.com >> From the command line, I can type: mplayer samplevideo.wmv >> and that opens a terminal window and starts mplayer, >> but how can I do that without having the terminal window also open >> so that only the target video opens? Matt Graham answered: > mplayer is the co

Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread Matt Graham
From: j...@actionline.com > From the command line, I can type: mplayer samplevideo.wmv > and that opens a terminal window and starts mplayer, > but how can I do that without having the terminal window also open > so that only the target video opens? mplayer is the command-line video player. gmpla

How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread joe
How can I start a .wmv video from the command line or from an html menu so that only the video window opens? >From the command line, I can type: mplayer samplevideo.wmv and that opens a terminal window and starts mplayer, but how can I do that without having the terminal window also open so that