How to bring up a skin and a shortcut for mplayer?

neutrino006 · 07-15-2006, 07:03 AM

I've managed finaly how to install mplayer, I can play anything with it, but is there a little thing that I can't do it by myself: I can't find the way to install a graphical interface (skin) and to place a shortcut to desktop or menu. For now, I open a movie with simply right-click on it, open with... and type in the dialog 'mplayer'. Is there a way to make mplayer looks like a classic media player? (It should be!) Please tell me: How ?
...Remember, I am a NEWBIE in Linux...so pls be patient with me....

David the H. · 07-15-2006, 07:10 AM

You start the gui version with the command "gmplayer". That should give you the skinnable interface, assuming the version you installed was compiled with gui support.

There are also a few separate gui players that use mplayer as the backend, such as kplayer and kmplayer. Some of them kind of resemble media player.