[Mplayer-users] Newbie question

[Anders Rune Jensen]

Hi

You need to specify a file to play like this: 

$ mplayer -vo x11 -ao oss:/dev/dsp /home/alice/movie.avi

Mplayer plays almost every format. Including, avi, divx, mpeg, asf, dvd,
vcd and so on.


On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 02:34, Subba Rao wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have compiled and installed MPlayer on Slackware 8. It has OSS sound driver. 
> I am trying to start MPlayer using the following command:
> 
> 	 $ mplayer -vo x11 -ao oss:/dev/dsp
> 
> Each time I do this, I get the help message. How do I start MPlayer? Does
> MPlayer play MPEG?, MOV and AVI files?
> 
> TIA.

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