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howtos:software:mplayer [2012/10/20 00:26 (UTC)] – aschyielhowtos:software:mplayer [2012/10/20 00:27 (UTC)] – aschyiel
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 == What is mplayer? == == What is mplayer? ==
-Basically, mplayer is a command-line movie player packaged into most slackware installations that happens to work great with music files in addition to watching movies.+Basically, mplayer is a command-line movie player packaged into most slackware installations; It happens to work like a champ with music files in addition to watching movies.
 Because mplayer doesn't strictly require a desktop environment to be running while playing music, it is quite light and is ideal for wimpier machines such as netbooks. Because mplayer doesn't strictly require a desktop environment to be running while playing music, it is quite light and is ideal for wimpier machines such as netbooks.
  

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