[MPlayer-users] hi

[Ross]

install kde or gnome

konqueror (the kde equiv of explorer) will handle all that sorta stuff with 
file associations same with nautilus (the gnome equiv)

dont shoot me if im incorect bout gnome stuff, i dont use it much.

- Ross Fawcett

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 8:32 pm, Anarky wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>     first of all: many many thanks to everybody who worked on creating
> mplayer ... it's awesome!!! Before it I didn't really think linux movie
> seeing was possible .. now I know it can be done with class :) Thanks!!
>
>     I've got this little problem: I'd like to have all my tools
> integrated into a file manager (probably xnc), like I had in windows
> with Windows Commander (I'm in a process of attempting a complete move
> to linux ;P  ) ... so, with xnc I can associate file types with commands
> ... what I'd like then would be to run mplayer whenever I acess an avi
> for example. So I guessed the command would be:
>
> "gmplayer -quiet -nofs file.avi &" ... but the problem is that when the
> player goes into the background weird things happen: the window isn't
> refreshed anymore .. or at one time keypresses in the console lead to
> player actions ... what should I do to start it cleanly in the
> background (maybe without it even writign to the background console?
>
> Thank you in advance for the help,
>
> PS: be somewhat mercifull with me please as I'm still a rather linux baby
> :) PS2: since I didn't subscribe to the mailing list or anything (I don't
> know how, I just got this email from the man) .. I don't know if I'll be
> getting the replies to this post. In case the list needs subscription,
> please somebody mail me & tell me how and maybe until I do you could send
> CCs of the replies to me personally, please?
>
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