[MPlayer-users] How to start mplayer

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 27 March 2003, Joonas Koivunen wrote:
> On Thursday 27 March 2003 19:10, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > Both KDE Start --> Multimedia --> MPlayer and
> > $ gmplayer on "Konsole Window"
> > start "MPlayer -Video" window and "MPlayer" set
> didn't mean that.. mplayer executable should be included anyway..

No. :) Look at the list of RPMs he installed. mplayer-gui*.rpm was there,
but not mplayer*.rpm. That's why he got gmplayer binary and not mplayer.

> > Video CD can be played but sound quality and video quality are not
> > reliable and stable.  The playing of the same video CD is good this time
> > but becomes bad next time
> make sure that arts isn't used.. suspend arts (with kde start -> multimedia -> 
> more programs -> arts control tool) before starting mplayer and make sure 
> it's not set in any config files.

And make sure you have DMA enabled for that CD drive.

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