HOW TO:Enable GUI in Mplayer/other multimedia issues

[athlete]

i have FC10
A
i installed mplayer 1.0 using yumex, though theres no GUI !!(shouldnt the GUI have been enabled after installing thru yumex?(why didnt it happen)
yumex also didnt add any short cut of mplayer on desktop or somewhere in applications!!
how do i enable the GUI?? Did the yumex d/l any skins (with mplayer) or do i have to d/l the skins?
how should i launch mplayer since the responsible icon says "cannot launch application"??
how do i add mplayer in applications menu on the desktop?

B
also i have amarok,kaffeine ,totem installed.if this mplayer thing doesnt work how do i make the installed apps to play various video formats.
i tried this

cd /tmp
(not this coz i had the codecs) wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
(not this coz i had the codecs) tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs'
su -c 'cp all-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs'
rm -rf /tmp/all-20071007*

this step is to allow other applications to get the necessary codecs

su -c 'ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32'

but it didnt work.none of the above mentioned apps were able to play the videos.the totem player says and said this before i commited the above mentioned steps "Video codec 'DivX 5' is not handled. You might need to install additional plugins to be able to play some types of movies"

C
if i install vlc palyer USING YUMEX,will i get the Gui?

[bigtomrodney]

Mplayer is a command line driven program. The frontend is called gmplayer, so you can try launching that. If that doesn't work then just have a look for the gmplayer package through Yumex.

Amarok and Kaffeine use the Xine engine usually and Totem uses Gstreamer. You can install Xine and xinelib/libxine along with as many plugins as you can find and also install all of the gstreamer-plugins packages

• gstreamer-plugins-good
• gstreamer-plugins-bad
• gstreamer-plugins-ugly