MPlayer's graphic interface?

ShadowMetis · 12-05-2004, 11:54 AM

What do I have to do to get the controls to come up? I've only been able to get it to run through the commandline and the controls don't show up when I do it like that.

randyding · 12-05-2004, 11:57 AM

The gui comes up when you run 'gmplayer'.

ShadowMetis · 12-05-2004, 12:04 PM

GMPlayer isn't there o_O

randyding · 12-05-2004, 12:15 PM

Oh ya, sorry...

Create a symbolic link from gmplayer to mplayer.

# cd /usr/local/bin { or whereever mplayer is }
# ln -s mplayer gmplayer
# ./gmplayer

and the GUI should come up.

Boow · 12-05-2004, 12:21 PM

when you compile mplayer you have to use the ./configure --enable-gui option. you also need to install a skin and font if you haven't already RTFM

ShadowMetis · 12-05-2004, 01:38 PM

What GTK package does the it require? It keeps giving me an error about the GUI needing GTK dev packages, but it doesn't state the name of the package.

ShadowMetis · 12-05-2004, 02:33 PM

Anyone?

randyding · 12-05-2004, 04:11 PM

I forgot about the skin, I used the Blue skin and picked one of the fonts.
The gtk devel that is installed on my system is
gtk2-devel-2.2.4-8.1
gtk+-devel-1.2.10-31

J.W. · 12-05-2004, 04:53 PM

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ShadowMetis · 12-05-2004, 06:19 PM

Ok, I got it all compiled and everything, but still no GUI.....\

EDIT:

Code:

[cfg] read config file: /home/shadowmetis/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Device or resource busy (it should be readable by the user.)
SKIN dir 1: '/home/shadowmetis/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'

The console just freezes up at that point until I close it. Then I get a graphic error.

And sorry about the bump before.