Thursday, February 22, 2007

Gmplayer configuration in Ubuntu

Sources: (http://www.mplayerhq.hu, http://www.kaldata.com/...)
Mozilla-mplayer plugin. Well, as Totem plays the videos as a default player in Ubuntu, there has to be a way to change this. One has to look at the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins and to delete everything, that has "totem" in its name.
Fonts, subtitles Since my native language is Bulgarian, and in no bulgarian forum have I seen an easy way to play a movie with subtitles, that do noot look like chinese symbols, I decided there should be an easier way to watch a movie. There is one. At my version of Mplayer (not sure which one it is, the one that comes at the standard repository of ubuntu 6.10), in the preferences, there is a box, called "subtitles&OSD". The encoding to me is set to "Cyrillic windows CP 1251". I have also tagged the unicode subtitle box. The more interesting is the other box, called "font". At my version of mplayer, it allows the user to choose a subtitle from a file (nice work of the developers of this player). There could be used fonts with the extension ".ttf", which are situated in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have chosen Times new roman.
Skins. Well, there is the download page of the mplayer, with lots of skins there. The desired skins should be moved to /usr/share/mplayer/skins . Now, how to use the skin. Write "gmplayer -skin TheNameOfTheSkinToUse" in a console. ( like gmplayer -skin webby).
Sound, VideoIf there's no video, one has to choose from the "video" tab the thing that works with his/her computer - this would usually be "xv" or "x11". If there's no sound...I think that if you have been reading this thing, you already know, that one should use the "audio" tab, for to adjust the setting that works with his/her computer.

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