How to open Mplayer?

[Jetro]

This has got to be the weirdest thing ever.

I installed Mplayer via Terminal (sudo apt-get install Mplayer), and I can't find the programme anywhere. It's not in Applications. When I type Mplayer in Terminal, I get a ridiculous long line of text.

oyv@oyv-laptop:~$ mplayer
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
 -vo <drv>        select video output driver ('-vo help' for a list)
 -ao <drv>        select audio output driver ('-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 <position>   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
 down or up       seek backward/forward  1 minute
 pgdown or pgup   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
 x or z           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 * * *

I thought there was supposed to be a GUI here?

[garvinrick4]

#open a terminal:

nautilus /usr/share/applications

Is it there:

#Or below:

sudo apt-get install aptitude

aptitude show mplayer

Will tell you version if installed and much more:

## Or you can try mplayer not Mplayer:

[stmiller]

Nope, no gui. mplayer is all from the command line. Basically issue mplayer file or stream.

Ex:

mplayer -aspect 16:9 http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/high

You might want to check out gmplayer which is a gui:

sudo apt-get install gmplayer

[Smart Viking]

mplayer is a terminal program.
Try launching "mplayer -gui" <- will probably don't work.
To play play video with mplayer:

mplayer /path/to/video.ogv

Read the man page for mplayer

man mplayer

Maybe you where looking for totem?

[Jetro]

Ah, thank you people. I actually managed to open the desired file in Mplayer by using Smart Viking's command.

No, I were not looking for Totem, that is after all the standard player...

I wanted to use Mplayer because it seemed to solve problems many people had with wmv – windows media audio 9 decoder. Unfortunately, I didn't get any sound in Mplayer either.

Is Gmplayer the same as Mplayer, just with a GUI?

Edit: sudo apt-get install gmplayer did not work.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package gmplayer

[Smart Viking]

You might want to check out gmplayer which is a gui:

sudo apt-get install gmplayer

Does not exist in the Ubuntu repos.

There are two front ends to mplayer in the repos, they are "smplayer" and "gnome-mplayer".
To install smplayer

sudo apt-get install smplayer

to install gnome-mplayer

sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer

You can also install themes to smplayer if you want it to look pwned/1337

sudo apt-get install smplayer-themes

[akand074]

SMPlayer is the best I hear, I still use VLC but I have SMPlayer as my backup with a source built mplayer with all the libraries so it can run virtually anything now. Check out this tutorial if you are interested.

[Jetro]

Once again, thanks.

I installed something called mplayer-gui and it was something like that I was looking for. It couldn't play the file at all.
I will check out that tutorial later. It looked complicated like hell, though. :S

[andrew.46]

Hi Jetro,

I will check out that tutorial later. It looked complicated like hell, though. :S

Well I have have actually simplified it enormously just recently so now it consists of a series of code blocks that can be copied and pasted directly into a terminal. I simplified it so that people who do not routinely compile software would perhaps be gently eased into the process .

Andrew

[NightwishFan]

Edit, nvm, packages changed in new releases.