I have spent I don't know how many hours trying to install Mplayer, after all this time all my install problems were fixed, and it install mplayer.. now where do I go to run it? Since on Linux things don't appear in the menu.. what can I type in to open mplayer? Please Help...

type in "mplayer".... surely you could have guessed that yourself ;-)

if you have installed the gui too, then you can also use "gmplayer", but remember, gui's slow you down and are generally a waste of time

mplayer or gmplayer

My mistake, I was typing that in Run Command, not in the terminal thanks guys...

Update:

What command in Mplayer do I use to run an Mpeg File?

Um, 'mplayer file'. Mplayer's documentation is much improved - check the man pages, /usr/doc, the website, etc.

I have tried Mplayer file.. here is what I get

The file name is not Complete.mpg either its Beatles - Yellow Submarine - Complete.mpg, and its from a CD I have inserted into the computer...

It actually has the spaces in the filename? If so, that's weird - usually apps jettison the end of stuff like that whereas it looks like mplayer is treating the beginning as arguments or something and keeping the end. Try

mplayer "Beatles - Yellow Submarine - Complete.mpg"

The command line is being read as 'app arg arg title' instead of 'app "title"', I think.

That being said, I haven't tried to play an mpeg from a CD with mplayer. Don't see why it would be any different from an ordinary hard disk file in that regard, though. Though, if it is a file on a CD you need to be in the directory of the mounted disk or issue the full path. (DVDs and audio CDs, as such, are different but this is just a file, it seems.)

(All the other stuff mplayer's spitting out is non-critical.)

Here is what I did, I copied the file to my computer and renamed the file to yellowsub.mpg and it worked just great..

Thanks!

Yes.. but still a better solution would have been just to use the " "'s, which would have allowed you to play any file even with spaces.

On to my next questions.. Playing DVDs.. I am not sure what to enter in the terminal to start the DVD...

It was either Kernighan or Ritchie who said, "When in doubt, use brute force."

mplayer dvd:// (and add chapters and whatever details you want - 'man mplayer' for this stuff. As Jose Muniz indicates, I need to do a little more man reading myself, it seems. )

Excuse me for being the dumb one here, but I am not sure how I should do this..

Should it be mplayer dvd://1 The one being the first chapter or should I write out one? or what? I am really confused...

If you want to play 1, it's optional - 'mplayer dvd://' will do - but, yeah, if you want to play 8, say, it's just 'mplayer dvd://8'.

I seem to be having a problem.. first off I am not sure the excat numeber of chapter the DVD's have... and I no longer have the cases.. so I guessed a number, does that make a difference if I got over the acutal number of chapters.. here is what I get..