Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

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Author: Matt Graham
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Subject: Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?
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> From the command line, I can type: mplayer samplevideo.wmv
> and that opens a terminal window and starts mplayer,
> but how can I do that without having the terminal window also open
> so that only the target video opens?


mplayer is the command-line video player. gmplayer is the GUI video player.
So try gmplayer instead. Or use xine, whichever.

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