Suppressing mplayer's pesky error messages

Every now and then, I watch video clips with mplayer which is an excellent player.

A quick google points to an additional command line parameter such as follows,

mplayer -msglevel all=0 

But its a pain to add that if you use the GUI since its not in the settings menu. As it turns out the simple solution is just to add the msglevel parameter to mplayer’s config file, you can add this to /etc/mplayer.conf to affect all users or just ~/.mplayer/config in your home folder to only affect just your own user account. Just add the following line.

msglevel=all=0