Playing programmes (in Linux version)

[dinkypumpkin]

On 07/02/2012 17:01, dinkypumpkin wrote:
> That file shouldn't contain the movie. That's not what mplayer puts on
> stdout. You'll get huge log files unless you use -quiet or -really-quiet
> with mplayer. Can't say why gedit would be confused. Embedded control
> characters, maybe? Try to cat the file and see what it looks like.

To be explicit, use "cat -e".