help running mplayer gui on redhat linux

kefen · 10-23-2003, 04:52 AM

i had mplayer install on my redhat linux 9, and after i copy the font and skin file into the correct directory, i try by using gmplayer and it come out as follow
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 1994 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
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
Reading config file /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/wangjiahong/.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: /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
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.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/wangjiahong/.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: '/home/wangjiahong/.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 ).
it cannot recognise the skin file.

whatś wrong with it? i need help to make it recognise the skin file.
thanks

hw-tph · 10-23-2003, 05:32 AM

In /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin you need to have a skin called default.
I use the neutron skin as default, so in the Skin directory I have the neutron dir. Since I want this to be the default I simply symlink "default" to the neutron dir:

Code:

hw@baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     staff        4096 2003-01-29 23:01 neutron/
hw@baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin$ su
Password: 
baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin# ln -s neutron/ default
baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin# ls -l
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     staff           8 2003-10-23 12:28 default -> neutron//
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     staff        4096 2003-01-29 23:01 neutron/
baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin# exit
exit
hw@baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin$

Håkan

XavierP · 10-23-2003, 05:44 AM

When you installed, did you do it like this:
./configure

or

./configure --enable-gui

The second is the correct option for using gmplayer.

If you did it the first way, you will have to start again by issuing ./configure --enable-gui, make and (as root) make install.

You will also need to download and install the codecs.

hw-tph · 10-23-2003, 06:31 AM

Since mplayer is searching for the skins it should be compiled with GUI support enabled and there should be no need to do it all over again.

Håkan

XavierP · 10-23-2003, 06:47 AM

Interestingly, and after rereading the error messages, I also received the exact same error message. I am guessing that this is the V1.0pre2 download.

It appears that mplayer isn't writing all of it's .conf files, which I think are there to tell mplayer about it's behaviour and look. (sounds like a strict teacher!

)

I too would like to know how this can be fixed, I am running SuSE 9.0. I wonder if it's a bug?

kefen · 10-23-2003, 09:05 AM

thank you a lot, now i have my mplayer running perfectly and i can change the skin as i want

abhay · 10-23-2003, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by XavierP
I too would like to know how this can be fixed, I am running SuSE 9.0. I wonder if it's a bug?

may be for SuSE as i m running it on Slack and Mandrake without any problems.