On 12/17/2010 02:24 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
> mplayer works fine, except it opens a huge terminal window with a log of
> lines of technical info scrolling while the video runs. Is there any way
> to make that terminal window not open (or resize it very small) while
> keeping the video window the main attraction?

I think the package you are looking for is gnome-mplayer.