[plug] mplayer was(Re:Window Managers)

[John Knight]

I must warn you that the Hungarians that make mplayer are rather hostile and 
always reply with "RTFM"! The best thing to do would be to find out where 
your mplayer executable is held. For all users to access it, its optimal 
installation directory (of which it should take first preference, assuming 
that you have an up to date version) is /usr/locl/bin, if it's not in there, 
but actually somewhere in /root, then it's "problem solvered". If you're 
typing out "mplayer" from anywhere instead of /usr/local/bin, make sure that 
it's in your path (you'll need to RTFM on paths for this).

If you're saying that it works but some files don't run etc, make sure that 
codecs.conf is copied into ~/.mplayer/.

seeya then!
en_GB KDE guy (otherwise known as anarchist tomato, nhoJ, John or anarchsit 
tomato when I mistype)!

>
>
> > Anyway, try Window Maker, Ice WM, Blackbox and maybe Enlightenment
> > too. Can I suggest that you download "mplayer" from
> > www.mplayerhq.hu and get the win32 codecs? Run this with Window
> > Maker with a divx movie and full screen turned on and you're in
> > absolute windoze replaced, X Windows heaven!
>
>Yes mplayer is a wonderful program once you get it to compile and
>install satisfactorly (it took some fiddlin' and also a bit to figure
>out gui support isn't in by default) I still haven't gotten it so
>that it will run as non-root but I have no idea why (actually I might
>just need to give read privs to the codecs or something). Anyway
>mplayer is a very lovely program and combined with xmms it fufills
>all my multimedia needs ^_^
>
>Oh and thanks everyone for the comments, I'm going to have to try out
>a few different window managers now.
>
>Paul C
>


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