mplayer .m4a audio problem

[bill-lancaster]

Hello,
I'm running mplayer from the command line. An audio file of type .m4a seems to automatically invoke a sort of mplayer gui.
Is there a way of avoiding this?

[speartip]

Same thing happens here.
when running "mplayer -ao pulse nameoffile.m4a"
I can't help with your issue, other than to suggest that it must be something embedded in the file.

[bill-lancaster]

Thanks, my only thought is that .m4a typically is for video (?). So I wonder if there's a command to supress the attempt to show the video.

[bill-lancaster]

Found it!
"-novideo" stops the gui thing from showing.
But now I have further problems with audio only .m4a which I'll start in a new topic.