[MPlayer-users] Starting Mplayer without playing a media file

[Lutz Schönemann]

>>> "gmplayer"
> 
>> Isn't it the same as calling mplayer with -gui as argument? If I use
>> gmplayer with the -menu argument the OSD doesn't work. Is there
>> something wrong with my mplayer?
> 
> "gmplayer" don't need "-menu" switch so it's easier to launch than 
> "mplayer -gui -menu" or something like that - if you need GUI.
> Did you did "./configure" with "--enable-menu" before compilation?
> 

I'm not sure if ./configure was run with --enable-menu because I'm using 
the standard installation of mplayer on a gentoo-machine. But the osd 
menu works fine without -gui.
I'll check that how gentoo configures mplayer...

Lutz