gmplayer can't start

wycolorado · 08-22-2007, 12:44 AM

hi, all:

I just compiled and installed MPlayer on my Suse box but gmplayer doesn't work. But mplayer works for me in the command line mode. Below is the error message:

MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 © 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
[skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin ) not readable.
Skin not found (default).

if I run as root, I got slightly different response:

MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 © 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Connection refused
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

I did copy all the skin files into /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin directory. Below is the ls -l results:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2218 2007-08-17 02:09 about.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2240 2007-08-17 02:09 double.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 380 2007-08-17 02:09 dvd.png

Really have no idea why gmplayer doesn't work.

Can anybody help me figure out the reason? thanks a lot.

David

weibullguy · 08-22-2007, 06:05 AM

You have to install a skin to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin. If you use the 'Blue' skin, then you would

Code:

wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Blue-1.7.tar.bz2 &&
tar -xvf Blue-1.7.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin &&
chown -v -R root:root /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue{,/icons} &&
ln -sfv Blue /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default

In any event you don't a full 'skin' at /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default. This is mine

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3K 2003-03-14 05:21 about.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2003-03-14 05:21 bareqb.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K 2003-03-14 05:21 barexit.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K 2003-03-14 05:21 barffwd.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2003-03-14 05:21 barfwd.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K 2003-03-14 05:21 barmute.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K 2003-03-14 05:21 barplay.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K 2003-03-14 05:21 barrev.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K 2003-03-14 05:21 barrevv.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2003-03-14 05:21 barstop.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  997 2003-03-14 05:21 barzoom.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    4 2007-02-25 01:26 Blue -> Blue
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  253 2003-03-14 05:21 eqb.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1K 2005-11-24 20:57 exit.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0K 2003-03-14 05:21 font.fnt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K 2003-03-14 05:21 font-pl.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1K 2003-03-14 05:21 forward.png
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2006-12-22 22:06 icons
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K 2004-05-30 20:24 load.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31K 2004-06-01 22:06 main.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  26K 2003-03-14 05:21 main-silver.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  17K 2006-07-01 04:16 menu.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  17K 2006-07-01 04:16 menus.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2004-05-30 20:24 minimize.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  378 2003-03-14 05:21 mute.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2K 2003-03-14 05:21 next.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  20K 2005-11-24 20:57 playbar.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  292 2003-03-14 05:21 playlist.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0K 2003-03-14 05:21 play.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  440 2003-03-14 05:21 pos.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1K 2005-11-24 20:57 prefs.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2K 2003-03-14 05:21 prev.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  834 2005-11-24 20:57 progres-long2c.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  948 2005-11-24 20:57 progres-long2d.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   71 2004-05-13 22:06 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8K 2003-03-14 05:21 rev.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.9K 2005-11-24 20:57 skin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  544 2003-03-14 05:21 skinb.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.7K 2004-05-30 20:24 stop.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  55K 2006-12-22 22:06 subblue.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  237 2003-03-14 05:21 subload.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  647 2003-03-14 05:21 symbols2.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  437 2003-03-14 05:21 symbols.fnt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  153 2003-03-14 05:21 symbolsg.fnt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    4 2006-12-22 22:06 VERSION
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  397 2003-03-14 05:21 zoom-3.png

wycolorado · 08-23-2007, 01:13 AM

thanks for your reply. I tried but still doesn't work. It gave me the same error message and a dialog box showing "[skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin ) not readable.

I don't understand what the error means. Also I am confused about the error text about the "can't connect to socket".

would you have any insight on it? thanks.

Yong