Can't open mplayer
 

Hi !

I can't open the mplayer video player. When I click in the menu an error message occur. It dissappear before I can read it.

But mplayer can play videos from the Terminal. Typing mplayer vid in the Terminal gives this output:

thort@thortsystem:~/Desktop$ mplayer vid boraas_djurpark_tiger.wmv
MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Willamette; Xeon Foster (Family: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.


91 audio & 204 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing vid.
File not found: 'vid'
Failed to open vid

Playing boraas_djurpark_tiger.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
VIDEO: [WMV2] 320x240 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 48.0 kbit/4.69% (ratio: 6000->128000)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 IYUV UYVY YV12 YVYU I420 YVU9
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x7f)
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
[PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 4.
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [wmv8] vfm: dshow (Windows Media Video 8)
==========================================================================
Building audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory
AO: [oss] 32000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Building audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 32000Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
A: 38.7 V: 38.8 A-V: -0.112 ct: -0.081 847/847 11% 0% 0.2% 9 0

Exiting... (End of file)


How can I make mplayer start when clicking in the menu?

mplayer is a command line program - it is designed to be run from a terminal with the file(s) to play as arguments. It will complain (as it does) if you start it by just calling 'mplayer' - you're not giving it anything to play. I guess this is what happens when you click it in the menu.

When you compile mplayer, you can choose to also build a gui for it. I've never used this but i believe you invoke it with 'gmplayer'. This might be more suited to running from a menu.

Thanks crazyjimbo !

I looked in my menu. I can see the menu command for my mplayer is gmplayer. Typing gmplayer in the Terminal gives this output:

thort@thortsystem:~$ gmplayer
MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer TeamCPU: Intel Pentium 4 Willamette; Xeon Foster (Family: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.



91 audio & 204 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startupscripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
[skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default).
thort@thortsystem:~$ cd /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin
bash: cd: /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin: No such file or directory
thort@thortsystem:~$ cd /usr/share/mplayer
thort@thortsystem:/usr/share/mplayer$ cd Skin
thort@thortsystem:/usr/share/mplayer/Skin$ cd..
bash: cd..: command not found
thort@thortsystem:/usr/share/mplayer/Skin$ cd default
thort@thortsystem:/usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default$ cd skin
bash: cd: skin: No such file or directory

As I understand this text there is no skin for mplayer. Therefore it can't start in gui mode.

Peculiar. How can I fix this? Shall I uninstall and install mplayer again?

I think you just need to install a skin. The mplayer site has plenty (at the bottom of the page) as well as instructions:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

I downloaded the default skin and copied it to the /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default folder. And now, mplayer starts from the menu !

Very good ! :)

Thanks!