Playing video- halfway there

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:04:13 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> What gui frontends are available for mplayer? I installed mplayer-gui
> and mplayer-skin-default but I cannot get a gui. That means that there
> is no mplayer in Sound and Video (translated) in the KDE menu, and
> clicking on wmv files doesn't do anything. Note that in konquerer the
> icon for wmv files IS a screenshot from the clip.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/143/cutting_crew.php
> Cutting Crew Song Lyrics

The gui is called gmplayer. Open a shell (terminal window), then run at
the prompt

gmplayer file.wmv

If you want to click, you must tell nautilus to use gmplayer not mplayer.
Oh, and for wmv you must have the win32 codecs in /usr/local/lib/win32.