Hi please as a damned noob i would like to know where do i go to make a shortcut for mplayer (kaffeine?) (no launcher in the gnome menu) on mdk 10.1 i've looked in /etc/ directory and nothing. I know that my reaction may show that i'm a lazy guy but it's for me and for my costumers... Please could some one help me?

Thanks

PS it's borring to have to open the gnome term and type always the cmd "# kaffeine" and wait for open it... i want a launcher....

don't you just right click on your desktop and choose "new shortcut" ? sure it was last time i went near gnome. won't have anything to do with /etc/ for one thing though.

also Kaffiene has nothing to do with MPlayer, it is a Xine front end. Mplayer is much better than Xine....

ok, i've installed mplayer but there is no launcher for mplayer nothing what could i do ???? maybe it´s not build to work on Gnome... any clue?

just add it in your menu, or create a shortcut icon. the commands are located in /usr/bin

ok if tried to run mplayer in the gnome term and this is that it says to me
$ mplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred 2001 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/setlec/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/setlec/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/setlec/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
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 * * *

$

So is mplayer got correctly installed or not? i don't understand. i got all the files of mplayer in /usr/bin but it doesn't work....

did you also install the package mplayer-gui? that's the gui front end for mplayer. without it, you can only use mplayer via command. try typing the following at a prompt......

or

if you get an error or mplayer doesn't load, that means you prolly don't have the gui package installed, so install it.

once you get that set up, you can create a shortcut to it if you like. i use KDE, so i don't know the procedure to do that in Gnome. if you create a shortcut, use the following for the command to launch it........

that will launch MPlayer without the splash screen (-quiet) and not in fullscreen mode (-nofs).

otis

ok i'll install it later 'coz i'm downloading the updates of mdk 10.1 i promise i will be very greatfully thankfull to if ur right i promise!