Can't use external video player with "-" in the name

[HasanAbbadi]

so, I was trying out different players to settle on one and keep watching with it. I've tried mplayer and it worked like a charm, but the issue is that mplayer doesnt have a gui.

So i decided that I wanna use gnome-mplayer, and because the player is made out of two words that has a "-" in between adl doesn't recognize it and it thinks that i am trying to type a command.

plz fix this soon thx

[RaitaroH]

The - gets in the way of how adl handles input error. So, if the user doesn't provide arguments. Unfortunately gnome-mplayer simply breaks that logic. What I can tell you to do, and it's simple, is to make a symlink of gnome-mplayer to some folder in your path. First find where gnome-mplayer is:

where gnome-mplayer

Then make a shortcut of it (without -) in some folder in your $PATH like so:

ln -s '/usr/bin/gnome-mplayer' ~/.local/bin/gnomeplayer

I can modify the code elsewhere, to allow counting episodes by mplayer, but... gnome-player doesn't output something useful in my case, just some glib errors. Can you use gnome-mplayer in a terminal and open something, then post here.