Re: RH 8.0 --- Me want Xine!

[John Bell <john.bell@borg-hive.net>]

Yes.

$ mplayer -fs path/filename/device

Mplayer has excellent documentation.  Check the man page or mplayer
--help.


John

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:38, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> I can't tell from the mplayer home page, so I'll ask here. Does mplayer 
> have a non-gui full screen capability? I want a player that will come up 
> when called from a command line (like xterm -e mplayer path/to/dvd) and 
> not have any capability for getting to the desktop. I'm currently doing 
> this with ogle with "xterm -e ogle -u cli /mnt/dvd" but I'm willing to try 
> other players to see if the image qualities are different.
> 
> eks
> 
> 
> On 4 Oct 2002, John Bell wrote:
> 
> > What a bummer, xine not included?  It might be included just not
> > installed by default.  I'd check the RPMS directory on all the CD's.  If
> > not just load the xine packages off of the 7.3 cd's or download the
> > latest from http://xine.sourceforge.net/ and compile natively for the
> > 3.2 libs.
> > 
> > As an alternative, try MPlayer at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
> > Personally, I like it better.  I think it renders the video better than
> > xine and doesn't seem to freeze as much.  But the gui is not as mature
> > as Xine.  On the upside it supports more formats than xine.
> > 
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:17, Charlie Brune wrote:
> > > Huh?  Where the heck is "Xine"?  How am I supposed to play my mpegs and
> > > avi's?
> > > 
> > > Downloading/installing Xine is not fun.  I have not had success.  I can't
> > > play my "Warriors of the Net" mpeg.  My head hurts.
> > > 
> > > Is this the non-multimedia distro or what?!?!?!  8-(
> > > 
> > > Sad,
> > > Chas
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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