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I installed the java plug-in and I did everything it said about how to configure it and it says "Java player installed, you must restart Mozilla for it to work"... so I restart it and nothing happen's......................... My second problem is that I am trying to install MPlayer and I downloaded "mplayer-1.0pre8-0.20050820.1.i386.rpm", opened up an installer program and it appeared to have installed but nothing happened... I also downloaded "lame-3.96.1-2.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm" and "player-1.0pre7-1.i386.rpm.... They all went through this self installer thing but nothing happened... Help?
what do you want to happen?
to launch mplayer do a whereis mplayer. It will prob be in /usr (i think /usr/share/mplayer for fedora) to launch it type the full location. in run cmd
/usr/share/mplayer
and it should launch. Same idea with the others
Alright, I installed MPlayer and all of that good stuff but I dont see it anywhere and when I write "mplayer" in terminal to get it to work it just says the following
[root@ool-18beecce ~]# mplayer
MPlayer dev-Fedora-GS-CVS-050820-19:40-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 147
Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename
Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
-vo <drv[:dev]> select video output driver & device ('-vo help' for a list)
-ao <drv[:dev]> select audio output driver & device ('-ao help' for a list)
vcd://<trackno> play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no mount)
dvd://<titleno> play DVD title from device instead of plain file
-alang/-slang select DVD audio/subtitle language (by 2-char country code)
-ss <timepos> seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-nosound do not play sound
-fs fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the man page)
-x <x> -y <y> set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom)
-sub <file> specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps, -subdelay)
-playlist <file> specify playlist file
-vid x -aid y select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play
-fps x -srate y change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate
-pp <quality> enable postprocessing filter (details in the man page)
-framedrop enable frame dropping (for slow machines)
Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf)
<- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute
pgup or pgdown seek backward/forward 10 minutes
< or > step backward/forward in playlist
p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
q or ESC stop playing and quit program
+ or - adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second
o cycle OSD mode: none / seekbar / seekbar + timer
* or / increase or decrease PCM volume
z or x adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second
r or t adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vf expand
* * * SEE THE MAN PAGE FOR DETAILS, FURTHER (ADVANCED) OPTIONS AND KEYS * * *
First determine what file you want to run be-it-an .mp3 .mpg. etc... Say you want to launch a file in your home directory under music called ToofDogger.mpg then:
mplayer ~/music/ToofDogger.mpg
or
mplayer /$HOME/music/ToofDogger.mpg
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