Mplayer not starting for New User

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Mplayer not starting for New User
started by: sankarv

Posted by sankarv on June 19 2006,12:14

I created newly an user.
I installed mplayer through mydsl.
Mplayer is not opening in my new user. it runs in command line but gui is not displayed instead help for mplayer is displayed if given as:

#mplayer <enter>
(help is displayed)

how can i see the gui of mplayer in my user.

Posted by mikshaw on June 19 2006,12:45

Use the command "gmplayer".

From the info you've given, it sounds like it's behaving normally. The non-gui version of mplayer requires at least one parameter in order to work.

Posted by WDef on June 19 2006,14:36

Hi Sankarv - further to what Mik said - you didn't say which mplayer extension you are using (there are three I think). I assume it's probably mplayer.dsl

If you're using the new uci however, gmplayer is not in PATH - but gmplayer is just a symlink to the mplayer binary in any case, which is in PATH.

Posted by sankarv on June 23 2006,04:16

thankx guys mplayer(gmplayer) is working and im ok with it.