On Tuesday 16 June 2020 09:33:10 Pisini, John wrote: > In Linux at the command line you need to escape a special character > which a space is with a slash. > So for a file called 'this is my mp4.mp4' you would write 'this\ is\ > my\ mp4.mp4' This does work with Bash's auto fill > Maybe, but "" around the whole thing is easier. > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:23 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 June 2020 04:33:57 Mike Bird wrote: > > > On Tue June 16 2020 01:18:55 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > There is an .mp4 on the u-sd card that comes with the creality > > > > ender3 pro 3d printer that I'd like to play. Which turned out to be assemble instructions sped up and ending as the last screw is being installed. And because the model has done it before, glosses over some of the time killers their written instructions gloss over. One thing it seriously needs is 4 more holes drilled in the uprights to positively locate the x travel bar dead level as its trolley screws are being tightened. > > > > Thanks & Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > > > mpv from Debian should works fine, or mplayer2 if you're still > > > running a mesozoic version of Debian. > > > > > > --Mike > > > > stretch, mpv runs, but has only a drop a file on it to play, no menu > > to go looking for a file. The usual drag copy to highlight the name, > > then a MMB paste to its screen doesn't work, so how do I play it? > > What a screwup this is. > > > > ... I finally made it work from the command line by enclosing the > > filename in dbl-quotes. Otherwise it try's to open each word in the > > windows style filename which is full of spaces. > > > > Crazy, and it sure as tootin isn't an operating improvement, nothing > > points me to mpv to play an mp4. mpv does have one, I just found it > > thank you Mike, but there ought to be an alias setup that gets you > > mpv's man page when you type man mp4, and get nothing. 'scuse the > > rant, but I've been poking at this for days. > > > > Thanks Mike. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > > respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >- To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > trinity-users-help@... > > Read list messages on the web archive: > > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > > Please remember not to top-post: > > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>