mplayer installation problem
I can install mplayer. Im using fedora core2 and i download this files:
Abyss-1.1.tar.bz2 (this is the skin) essential-20041107.tar.bz2 font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 MPlayer-2.0pre5.tar.bz2 I did this: i extract the codecs to /usr/local/lib/codecs mkdir /build cd /build tar xfvz /build/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2 cd /build/MPlayer-1.0pre5 ./configure --enable-gui make make install i extract the font and the skin to /usr/local/share/mplayer/skin and /usr/local/share/mplayer/font I can see some files that were install but when i try to open it it doesnt do anything. can somebody help me plz?? |
What happens if you type "gmplayer" in the console?
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MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon Willamette 1964 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config [cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf Reading config file /root/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display) Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Using built-in default codecs.conf. font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz). Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin' SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin' [skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found. Skin not found (default). |
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As for your skin issues, If you check the DOC/HTML/en/skin-overview.html file you'll see where it says that the skin needs to be in it's own directory UNDER the directories mentioned above. And you have to create them for some of them. |
Hi.
Alternative solution: I had problems compiling mPlayer myself (newbie) so i googled for "mplayer RPM" and found rpms for the most common distributions. I found that I needed the lame package as well as the win32codec package which also are available as RPM:s. Didn't bookmark the pages but a search in google should do the trick. This is not the same as installing from source but it gave me a player that can handle all mpg and avi formats. Good luck! |
try running
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mplayer <filename> This will attempt to load up mplayer onto the screen w/o the gui. Try that to see if it works If it still doesnt work ... what does it say failed? If its video do mplayer -vo help to choose the appropriate driver if its audio problems -ao help Once you get it working w/o the skin then try gmplayer -skin <skinname> for instance I have a folder called Orange in /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ so I would do Code:
gmplayer <possible video/audio options from before> -skin Orange ie cd /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin ln -s Orange default then you no longer need to specify the skin, it will simply think of it as the default. Also try running it as a normal user rather than root. Hope that helps |
try running this command
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mplayer -vo x11 -skin Abyss FILENAME.EXT the bold area i think is the problem. It must have a default skin installed. Download the default skin, and unzip it to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/ - this should resolve it to a useable state. then continue from there. |
I had the same problem yesterday when I installed mplayer. The default skin does not have anything in it. So, symlinking any of the existing skins to default will work.
The RPM for skins can be found in http://freshrpms.net if you feel as lazy as me to select and download skins. |
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