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Re: MPlayer vs mplayer



 eric c wrote: 
> Hi all. 
> 
> When I right click on a video file there's two options, 'mplayer' and 
> 'MPlayer'. 
> 
> mplayer plays the vids perfectly but there's no control gui, just the 
> video box.  Right clicking on the video offers no options. 
> 
> MPlayer plays very poorly.  Skipping frames, locks up and eats up a ton 
> of CPU.  I've fiddled with the preferences but I can't get it to play 
> like it's lower case brother. 
> 
> When I click on the file and select properties => open with there's two 
> mplayers. 
> 
> I _think_ I only have one mplayer installed. 
> 
> [root@firedragon eric]# rpm -aq | grep mplayer 
> mplayer-1.0-0.88.rc2.lvn8 
> mplayer-gui-1.0-0.88.rc2.lvn8 
> 
> How do I get MPlayer to play like mplayer? 


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