source: multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml@ e80cc95

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<title>Configuring mplayer</title>

<sect3><title>Config files</title>
<para><filename>~/.mplayer/config</filename>, <filename>~/.mplayer/codec.conf</filename></para>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>

<para>If you wish to utilize a freetype font, you need to link a TTF
file to your <filename>~/.mplayer</filename> directory.  For example:
<screen>ln -sf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisri.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</screen>otherwise 
<screen>ln -sf /usr/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-14 ~/.mplayer/font</screen>
where 14 is the font size. You can chose your font size of 14, 18, 24 or 28.</para>

<para>Set up the GUI with the following commands executed from your source directory:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.mplayer/config &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
gui = yes
skin = default
<userinput>EOF
mkdir ~/.mplayer/Skin &amp;&amp;
tar -xvf ../default.tar -C ~/.mplayer/Skin</userinput></screen>
</para>

<para>The first line, <userinput>gui = yes</userinput>, will make
MPlayer start in gui mode automatically. If you want to decide whether to start
in gui mode or not, leave that line out and start mplayer with
<userinput>-gui</userinput> or as <userinput>gmplayer</userinput> (e.g.
when starting from a Window Manager menu or command prompt).</para>

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