[wplug] mplayer

[Scott Husek]

> There was an article on Linuxworld (www.linuxworld.com) recently about
> mplayer. He mentioned that there is a gui but you have to enable it when you
> build it. It is not default. The article characterized mplayer as a good
> program with a rotten install and documentation.
>

That about sums up my experience with it... if you can manage to compile
it, and learn a few basic keyboard commands, it'll play just about
anything.  I haven't used it to watch dvd.
-Scott

>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:21:40AM -0500, coldfire wrote:
> > just wonderin if anyone used mplayer .. and if you do, have you managed to
> > watchs dvds with the gui?  thanks ..
>
> I have used mplayer to watch DVDs, but I do not believe that there is a
> gui in mplayer, because I've read that the lead developer dislikes them.
> I prefer xine (http://xine.sourceforge.net) for watching DVD's because
> it supports menus and gives me full fps.
>