Clearing MPlayer's recent movies list

[malfist]

I'm not the only person who uses this computer, and I would like to set MPlayer not to remember the recently played movies. How can i do this?

[SoftwareExplorer]

You could alway set up separate users and then set the permissions for vlc user specific folders to be readable only by the user they belong to.
I'm tempted to say, 'so you've been watching...' Never mind.

[malfist]

Well, the recently viewed video's on mplayer are not cross-user, more than one person uses this account. If I could find where it stores the data, I could probably write a cron to erase it every now and again, that'd be enough for me.

[StuartN]

It must be all those embarrassing Lisbon II Referendum campaign information films...

Try ~/.mplayer/gui.history and ~/.mplayer/gui.url

(OMG see what those horrible Eurocrats are REALLY going to do http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94231)

[bear24rw]

you can go to Place > Recent Documents > Clear which will clear recent videos from totem i'd imagine it might also work for mplayer

[malfist]

gui.history is empty and so is gui.url. Also there is not a "place" menu item.

[StuartN]

gui.history is empty and so is gui.url. Also there is not a "place" menu item.

My ~/mplayer/gui.history contains the recent file list, which is updated when mplayer exits. If I clear this file, then mplayer's file dialogue clears. If I edit it then the items appear in mplayer's file dialogue.

[malfist]

Not for me, mine are completely empty. I'm talking about the movie player that comes default with a gnome installation, build on top of totem.

[fluffman86]

Just FYI, Totem is not MPlayer. Two completely separate projects.

And to clear your totem movie player recent files, go to Places (at the top panel, next to Applications), then Recent Documents, and click "Clear Recent Documents" at the bottom. That should work.

[malfist]

Perfect, thank you! Sorry about the confusion.