[MPlayer-users] Gmplayer doesn't use the gui

[The Wanderer]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> On Wednesday, 21 April 2004 at 21:15, dooblem wrote:
> 
>>Hi everybody !
>>i'm running with MPlayer v1.0pre3try2
>>I've a little problem with gmplayer... when I launch :
>>$ gmplayer
>>
>> no problem, the gui starts, but when I open a film with the gui,
>> the film starts decoding, but in another window, as if it was
>> launched by the mplayer command from the console.
> 
> If I understand you correctly, this is how it's supposed to work. How
> would you have it otherwise?

At a guess, he expects it to open in the GUI window itself - that being
the way most Windows players do it (in fact I remember having used only
one which didn't, the then-latest(-free) QuickTime Player). Never having
tried or otherwise seen the MPlayer GUI, I'd have expected much the same
myself; I can imagine why it wouldn't be done that way, but the
assumption doesn't seem unreasonable.

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