[plug] .deb's for MPlayer

[Russ Pitman]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:39:09PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 06:34:10PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, quoth Russ Pitman:
> > 
> > > I installed the .deb and ran 'mplayer' in an xterm, plenty of text
> > > output,no error message I could see and nothing else.
> > 
> > Did you give it a filename to play?
> > 
> > run "gmplayer" if you want a gui, and want to choose a filename from
> > there.
> > 
> >  - Matt
> > 
> Believe or not Matt I got the horse first :-) I only have One mp3 file 
> in my systems. No video files and no dvd's. It couldn't use the audio
> but it did try and will surely work .
> 
> I will rectify that tomorrow and report back in due course. In the 
> meantime having read John's Linmag article I will download the source
> overnight as a penance.

Ok Been there. I removed the .deb version and built the source version 
no hassles there tho,I wouldn't recomend that a linux novice take that 
path, sorting out the startup,permissions etc would probably put them 
off.

Its currently running setuid till I have more time and files to 
test,however "It works *great*".

Thanks to you all for your input. 
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Cheers,
russ.