[CentOS] Set default MPlayer -vo?

[Matt Hyclak]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:15:20PM +0200, Niki Kovacs enlightened us:
> I'm running CentOS 4.3 with the rpmforge and kbs repos enabled. I just
> installed MPlayer and tried it. It has a small problem. 
> 
> When I want to view myfile.wmv, Mplayer displays the following error
> message: "Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo)
> device." 
> 
> So I opened a console, took a peek at the various options (mplayer -vo
> help), and then the movie worked just fine with mplayer -vo x11. 
> 
> Q: how do I make this option my default, so that when I double-click on
> a .wmv or .avi in Nautilus, it gets opened with the -vo x11 option? I
> thought about creating an alias, but there must be some more orthodox
> way to do that.
> 

man mplayer

Toward the bottom of most man pages is a section called "FILES". Usually
listed here are files that are important to the command. 

There's your clue-by-four for the day :-)

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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