Thread: mplayer missing in Fremantle
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johnel is offline johnel
2009-12-29 , 10:12
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#43
Originally Posted by shadowjk View Post
MPlayer is in extras-devel and is optified. I don't know the status of the simple mplayer frontend, or kmplayer, whether theyre optified or not. MPlayer by itself has no friendly user interface to start it with.
The defaults are usually ok. I usually start it from the shell.

mplayer movie.avi -ao alsa

I have watched a few movies with this and seems to run fine. If there is a problem the output usually give you an idea what is wrong.

Mplayer is much better than the default media player.

E.g. I was watching as episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with the defualt Nokia media player and it was consistantly and visibly dropping frames. Tried it with Mplayer and playback was silky smooth.
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