hhegab

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where did you get
Mplayer-yada.yada.tar.bz2, from?

hhegab

neo77777

directly from the mantainer's website http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html the first row is the source (hungary link for http gets bz2ball (tar.bz2)

hhegab

Dear Friends,

I could make mplayer work!!! I wrote mplayer -vo x11 (file name- with the complete path to it)
Now, what does -vo means?
How may I use the gui?
How may I add skins?

hhegab

MasterC

Congratulations! If you type mplayer -vo help you can get a list of other available options to use. Such as mplayer -vo xv and so on.

a: video output (this means the device you are outputting it to)

b: gmplayer (if you configured it during the ./configure stage)

c: d/l them and untar them into the /usr/local/mplayer/Skins directory

neo77777

mplayer also creates .mplayer/Skin directory in your home you can put the skins there

hhegab

I shall see, thank you!
but does it support audio files too, like avi and wav files?

hhegab

neo77777

Of course it does

hhegab

and the command is .......?

hhegab

neo77777

mplayer /path/to/filename.wav
mplayer -vo x11/path/to/file.avi

milesstandish

okay i have read every post in here and think maybe i am getting close. then again maybe not. i am running rh7.3 with an ati 3d rage pro agp 1x/2x. if i am in kde and open mplayer from the k menu, i get: "can't load /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc". i can close that and get the same results as i about to tell you. if i try to just open the file form the directory its in i get: "error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device". if i try command line i get: well, alot of errors. someone point me in the right direction. at least about the font errors?? thanks in advance.

MasterC

Well there is a font package that you should install from mplayer's homepage www.mplayerhq.hu

As for the error, did you specify a video out device? An example of a command would be:
mplayer -vo x11 /path/to/file/filename.avi

Where x11 is the video out device.

Maybe a few of the many errors you get from issuing command line, might help to diagnose your problem a little better.

Cool

milesstandish

okay it works mostly great from command when i specify the -vo (in my case x11). but if i open it by clicking on an avi file is still get the same error as before (the error being "error opening/initializing theselected video_out (-vo) device"). making me think that i need to find the config file that will let me permanently change the -vo selection or specify it. but where does that file hide? and next i'll tackle the problem i get opening it from the k menu. thanks again

acid_kewpie

/etc/mplayer.conf:

vo = x11

poldervaart

Okay....I have been reading this thread about mplayer, and decided to give it a try. On install, I used the following:

./configure
make
make install

All went well. What I forgot was to include the option to enable the gui in ./configure.

I went back to reconfigure with the --enable-gui option
then reinitiated the make command, and I began getting errors.
Not knowing what the hell I am doing I went ahead and did the make install command to see what would happen, and got more errors. Ultimately I still do not have the gui version.

The mplayer works fine though, both through the terminal, and by double-clicking the .mpeg files.

What do I have to do to get the gui? Is there a way to UNINSTALL mplayer and start all over? Will that help?

I don't have a clue what the errors mean, but I will include them in this post .


Thanks so much for your help.

Chris (very newbie)

ERRORS:

FROM MAKE:

ac3enc.c:1310: internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
make[1]: *** [ac3enc.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/MPlayer-0.90pre10/libavcodec'
make: *** [libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Error 2

FROM MAKE INSTALL:

[root@GODZILLA MPlayer-0.90pre10]# make install
make -C libavcodec
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/chris/MPlayer-0.90pre10/libavcodec'
gcc -O4 -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall -g -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o ac3enc.o ac3enc.c
ac3enc.c: In function `encode_exp':
ac3enc.c:1310: internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
make[1]: *** [ac3enc.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/MPlayer-0.90pre10/libavcodec'
make: *** [libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Error 2

adam_boz

You probably don't need to un-install the old one. You should unpack clean sources before compiling it again, if you're not doing that, then that's probably the problem.