Mplayer

Well sometime linux can be frustrating and when it comes to mplayer nothing can me more worse. After lots of head banging i found a simple and elegant way to do it. Simply type in the following commands and mplayer will be up n running.

1. Add mplayer repositories. For that open /etc/apt/sources.list and augment these two line.

 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse
 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse

2. Run these two commands.

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install mplayer

3. Run Mplayer, If all goes fine you can have a gala time. But for it was not so. Mplayer took lots of loading time while disabling screensaver. I read that a conflict b/w comfiz and mplayer. So simply goto mplayer>right click>preference>misc and uncheck "Disable screensaver" stuff.

4. In case mplayer not finding video out device. open ~/.mplayer/config and search for line "vo".
Simply add the output device name like xv. Finally your mplayer conf should have something like "vo=xv". To list all supported device type `mplayer -vo help` that will list you out all the option..

 mplayer -vo help

5. Worst, mplayer's got dumb. Simply mplayer>Right click>preference>Audio Tab select "pulseAudio".

Hope this helps