[MPlayer-users] -tv driver=help

[Robert Henney]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 08:51:38AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Robert Henney <robh <at> rut.org> writes:
> 
> > from the manual page I get the impression that the following is supposed 
> > to do more than output the usage text as if a bad command were entered.
> > 
> >   mplayer -tv driver=help
> 
> mplayer tv:// -tv driver=help
> (Your command is missing the filename and therefore printing the usage text.)

oh, that makes it work.  thanks.  I am used to the following commands
working without needing to provide a filename, so it didn't occur to me
that that was what was missing.

  mplayer -ao help
  mplayer -vo help