[MEncoder-users] No idea what I am doing...

[Greg Heywood]

Thanks. That is a great help. Hopefully I can get a little further.

Cheers
Greg



On 21/09/2007, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Greg Heywood wrote:
>
> > OK. I still cannot find any local documentation. I have
> > /usr/share/doc/mplayer, but can't seen any documentation in there.
> > There is a /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz, but when I open that,
> > there is just a manplayer.1 file and it doesn't seem to be associated
> > with anything. When I try and open it, there are no "available
> > applications".
>
> This is a man page; you don't need to unzip it to access it. The file
> inside is plain text, but it is formatted in a way you probably don't
> know how to read easily.
>
> You access a man page with the 'man' command. For a man page named
> 'mplayer.1.gz' in the standard man-page search path, the command would
> simply be
>
> man mplayer
>
> and your copy of the man program will find the file, format it correctly
> for your current terminal size, and display it.
>
> I have no idea what environment you are in which has *nix-style paths,
> but tries to automatically associate files with programs to open them.
> The correct way to interact with most files in an *nix environment,
> including man pages, is from the command line.
>
> --
>       The Wanderer
>
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