[MPlayer-cygwin] mplayer

[Chris Taylor]

> 
> I downloaded MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre4.zip from the mplayer website and 
> unzipped it. There is an executable mplayer.exe but it doesnt 
> execute. 
> What configuration do I need to do? I searched through the 
> README files 
> and documentation but couldnt find anything. Do I have to compile the 
> source code? Should I download "MPlayer v1.0pre4 source"?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Rohan

I think you're assuming it to be a gui app, which it is not.
For the GUI, you need to start it as gmplayer ..

Mplayer is, by default, a command line program.
Extract the files, and use mplayer.exe filename.ext

HTH
Chris