Mplayer... why won't you work?

Vigorousjammer · Post by **Vigorousjammer** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:19 pm

ok, so I downloaded Mplayer from this link: http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/gui/mplay ... n-21682.7z

then I went ahead and tried opening it, and it said I needed an dll file, pthreadGC2.dll

I went ahead and searched for it on google and downloaded that...

now whenever I try to open up mplayer, it just shows a dos screen for a second and then disappears... anybody know what i'm doing wrong?

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:29 pm

mplayer is a Win32 commandline application. It has no GUI.

Vigorousjammer · Post by **Vigorousjammer** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:37 pm

oh... where would I be able to get a gui version...
or actually, better yet, where would I be able to just find a codec or converter for this AVI file I created using Mencoder and ZSNES WIP 1.43

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:15 pm

Just download MPlayer from the official site, http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

There should be a GUI version there in the downloads section.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:39 pm

You want to use mencoder from http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

There are optimized versions there. The GUI one is wonky as of this post though (it has been wonky for a while). You want to learn the command line (it is not hard for the purpose of playing back the video).

mplayer play_my_movie.avi

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:48 pm

Blame development over there as random as it gets. Use the command-line version... it's not hard... really.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:25 am

if i associate my move files with the command line version will it still open the movie if i open a movie via file association?

Post by **Nach** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:38 am

Lets put it this way, if an app can't load something via the command line, you can't associate it.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:23 pm

i got pthreadgc2.dll from http://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/s ... atest/lib/

and also was wandering about why the videos where jerky and as i kept thinking about it i realized i also had to set refresh rate to 60hz for it... is there a command line option for it that i can use to set the refresh rate to 60hz each time i play a movie with mplayer like the one found in zsnes?

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:10 pm

Agozer wrote:mplayer is a Win32 commandline application. It has no GUI.

that's more wrong than parachute pants

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:25 pm

soulmata wrote:
Agozer wrote:mplayer is a Win32 commandline application. It has no GUI.

that's more wrong than parachute pants

Ok.

parachute pants?

I'm listening.

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:02 pm

mplayer is not a win32 app

mplayer has many GUIS written for it

terminate discussion~~

Post by **badinsults** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:59 pm

mplayer -fs nameofmovie.avi

Why exactly do you need a gui?

Post by **Nach** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:17 pm

No need to use -fs, just hit f to toggle.

Post by **badinsults** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:25 am

Ah, I didn't know that.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:27 am

franpa wrote:is there a command line option for it that i can use to set the refresh rate to 60hz each time i play a movie with mplayer?

sorry for re-asking.