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GMPlayer is the "GUI" which comes with the MPlayer package

The Movie Player will play any video file given to it even if they are partially broken. GMPlayer is just a fancy GUI for this player, which means that GMPlayer also plays everything from XViD to DVD to MP4 files.

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Overriding a executable to add a default flag

Here's my boggle. I use gmplayer to play all my videos. 99.9% of the time everything works fine but in that 1-in-1000 case, a video might be corrupted. gmplayer plays the video but it cries like an angry, hungry baby, popping up windows left, right…
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How to fix AVI index error

I try to open an AVI file. The first software I tried is VLC media player. It reports some error about AVI index: This AVI file is broken. Seeking will not work correctly. Do you want to try to fix it? This might take a long time. I chose…
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Default audio volume with gmplayer

I'm using mplayer to play videos. To have the option to play videos with mplayer from nautilus, I installed gnome-mplayer. I do not need the ui and it start with 0% sound while mplayer start with normal sound. I searched and they seem to be using…
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Anybody know what happened to gmplayer in Maverick?

My long-term media player (for various reasons) has been gmplayer. A simple floating UI that remembered its fullscreen layout and just worked for me. I'm not trying to convert anybody but please respect that I'm not looking for alternatives. It used…
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GnomeMplayer accents displayed as "?", how i fix it?

For some reason in GnomeMplayer the accents in the subtitles are displayed as '?', Is there a way to fix this problem? What I've tried: edit, preferences, language settings, I put everything into Brazilian Portuguese and UTF-8 ... and I tried also…
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gmplayer can't run

Everything seems to be installed: $ apt list mplayer\* Listing... Done mplayer-doc/focal,focal 2:1.3.0-8build5 all mplayer-gui/focal,now 2:1.3.0-8build5 amd64 [installed] mplayer-skin-blue/focal,focal 1.11-2 all mplayer-skins/focal,focal,now…
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Does gmplayer work?

I'm trying to get "gmplayer" to work. I did, eventually, get it to work, but it was a struggle, and I have a question (at the end of this post). Note: I first installed mplayer and it works just fine. That worked "out of the box". But when I…
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