How to start a video from command line or menu?

[Matt Graham]

From: joe at actionline.com
> 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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