[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: mplayer

[Rohan Shah]

Sascha Sommer wrote:

>>I downloaded MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre4.zip from the mplayer website and 
>>unzipped it. There is an executable mplayer.exe but it doesnt execute. 
>>What configuration do I need to do? I searched through the README files 
>>and documentation but couldnt find anything. Do I have to compile the 
>>source code? Should I download "MPlayer v1.0pre4 source"?
>>
> 
> 
> MPlayer is a compandline player. You have to start it from console with
> mplayer file.avi.
> Or just drop a file onto the exe.
> 
> Sascha

Here is what I'm doing:

rohans at TUJAN206 /home/Desktop/mplayer
$ ls
AUTHORS  Copyright  LICENSE  Readme.txt  Rich Mullins - As The Deer.mp3 
  codecs  drivers  man_page.html  mencoder.exe  mplayer  mplayer.exe

rohans at TUJAN206 /home/Desktop/mplayer
$ mplayer Rich\ Mullins\ -\ As\ The\ Deer.mp3
bash: mplayer: command not found

rohans at TUJAN206 /home/Desktop/mplayer
$