mplayer installation

hammam12 · 08-04-2006, 05:08 PM

I download MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2 then I did decomplressed it to MPlayer-1.0pre8, then I compile it :
./configure
make
make install
my question here what I have to do next before I ran it
hammam@linux-wyej:~/Documents/movies> gmplayer Hossam.mpg
bash: gmplayer: command not found
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

masonm · 08-04-2006, 05:20 PM

try the command mplayer

hammam12 · 08-04-2006, 09:14 PM

Hi Mason,
Thank you. It is working, but there is no forwarding and backwarding for volume and the movie itself. Also I can not find the subtitle.
Could you pls tell me how to get them ?
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

Daws · 08-04-2006, 09:31 PM

Foward & Backward for the movie is the left and right arrow keys, volume is 9 and 0.

For subtitles: try mplayer -sid 0 filename or mplayer -sid 1 filename etc. If that doesn't work double check the subtitles are actually contained in the file. If the subtitles are stored in a separate file then use mplayer -sub /path/to/subfile filename.