How to start a video from command line or menu?

[Stephen]

i think if you tag a && to the end of the line it should run the task...

I have used that before but i might also be remembering the wrong syntax

# mplayer -x -y -z /path/to/file/movie.file &&

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:24 PM,  <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>> From: joe at actionline.com
>>> 'gmplayer' is not found on my system or in synaptic.
>>> 'xine' also is not found, although a lot of packages
>>> with 'xine' in the names are found, but I can't tell
>>> which ones would be the main 'xine' program.
>>
>> That's really weird, unless the mplayer people have changed the names of
>> things again, or made it so that "mplayer --gui" now does what "gmplayer"
>> used
>> to do.
>>
>> But xine is separated into xine-ui and xine-lib.  The idea was that the
>> codecs
>> would probably change a lot more often than the UI code, so there would be
>> fewer updates if the packages were separated.  Running "apt-get install
>> xine-ui" should install the xine-lib dependencies unless this distro has
>> really messed up their dependency tracking.  (Not sure why anyone would
>> install xine-aa, though....)
>
>
> mplayer --gui video.wmv ... did not work for me.
>
> I was able to install xine-ui from synaptic, but it makes terrible noises
> when running (like very loud white-noise).
>
> 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?
>
>
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