[MPlayer-users] Playing a movie without X windows

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:11:22AM +0100, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:23:50PM -0600, Green, Shaun wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 
> > Yeah, I tried that, but it said I also needed sdl. So I did;
> > 
> > mplayer -vo help
> > 
> > but sdl wasn't one of my options. So what's the full command?
> 
> You should compile sdl support in ...
> 
> > 
> > mplayer -zoom 1024 foo.avi
> > 
> > Should this work w/o X Windows?? Maybe I need to recompile MPlayer w/ sdl
> 
> X Window, NOT Windows! This is a very common fault. Windows is MS Windows.

Neither!!! RTFM man X!!!

> X Window or X Windowing System.

X Windowing System is one correct name.

Rich