I’m confused. I installed mplayer2 and mplayer2-as-mplayer but where is the frontend?
Mplayer2 does not have a built in frontend. Try smplayer2, gnome-mplayer, gmplayer etc. I think gmplayer is the frontend that most people are used to with mplayer. Smplayer2 is the best though, I think it is in packman.
IMHO the best indeed, allows you to use mplayer with almost all it’s options.
my vote is for gnome-mplayer
umplayer is also good
Thanks for the replies guys. Was getting some choppy video in a fairly recent install of 12.2 x86_64 using mplayer/gmplayer. I decided to do some old fashioned RTFM here:
and relearn how to use mplayer from cli (as mplayer2). Also am using smplayer2 and have gnome-mplayer and kmplayer available but smplayer2 seems best frontend. Using from cli works very well also I just hadn’t done this in a long time.
> rpm -qa | grep mplayer
gnome-mplayer-1.0.7-1.6.x86_64
mplayer2-20121128-1.1.x86_64
kmplayer-0.11.3d-1.18.x86_64
libqmmp0-plugin-mplayer-0.6.6-3.1.x86_64
mplayer2-as-mplayer-20121128-1.1.x86_64
smplayer2-20121224+0.8.0-1.4.x86_64
And mplayer2 seems to be working better than mplayer.