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08-18-2003, 11:51 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
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Mplayer on web
So I FINALLY got Mplayer installed using apt-get, man is that a lifesaver....Anyway, I now have 2 questions...
1.) How can I open up the GUI? I opened a terminal and typed 'mplayer -gui' to no avail....
2.) Obvioulsy I have to do something else to play clips from the web(?)...Here's the clips I want to view if anyone can help me out, I'd really appreciate it.
Movie Clips
Thanks,
Scott
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08-19-2003, 12:04 AM
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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
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The command to load the MPlayer GUI is gmplayer.
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08-19-2003, 12:17 AM
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You are my hero...Thanks. Any ideas on getting video to play within Mozilla, or at least to automatically open Mplayer and play the videos?
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08-19-2003, 12:28 AM
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Oh yeah, I've also downloaded extralite.tar.bz2 (All the Windows codecs I believe?) and put all the files in /usr/lib/win32. When I click on one of the .wmv files, a new page opens up with all kinds of characters on the page. when trying to open a quicktime movie, I get the little "puzzle piece" that says I'm missing a plugin....Please help, this is the LAST thing that's holding me back from LOVING Linux.
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08-19-2003, 12:42 AM
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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
Although, I looked at those videos, and for some reason it wouldn't play inside the browser even with that plugin. But when I copied url and played:
mplayer http://www.surfermag.com/vids/bh1.wmv
It worked just fine. The plugin isn't perfect, but works for a lot of online video.
Cool
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08-19-2003, 12:43 AM
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Yeah, I did that same thing and it worked....The plugins worked great for por...err, I mean for other things  ....Thanks for all your help.
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