adam.

I deleted the first "MPlayer-0.90pre10" folder and then unpacked the tar again. I ran the sequence again with the --enable-gui option in configure. The configure went fine, but I got the same exact errors as before with the make command.

Okay.... I did some more searching on the Net and found some news group posts in reference to the " internal error: Segmentation fault" errors.

There was some talk about hardware (cpu,ram) and bios issues that were causing this error when compiling kernels.

There was even further talk about declocking the cpu in bios. All of that talk made me remember that I have my Athlon XP overclocked in BIOS. Has worked fine in WinXP, but haven't had much experience with Linux yet.

I went into BIOS and set my CPU back to norm, and then tried the whole install process again. WENT WITHOUT A HITCH.

So what does that mean??? Is the addition of the GUI part of the program soooo tough to compile that it was too hard for my overclocked CPU???

Anyway....just thought I would let you all know.

I haven't really tested the program yet...so I may need you all again!

Chris

Well, the install seemed to go fine...but here is what I get when I run mplayer:

[chris@GODZILLA chris]$ mplayer -vo X11 0040.mpeg
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90pre10-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading /home/chris/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/chris/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 44 audio & 110 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/chris/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
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/chris/.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

Playing 0040.mpeg
Detected MPEG-PS file format!
VIDEO: MPEG1 320x240 (aspect 1) 29.97 fps 131071.5 kbps (16383.9 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 24000->128000 (192.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device!


Exiting... (End of file)

If your going to try -vo X11, try making the X a lower case x.

-vo x11

Or try it without specifying a vo or maybe an alternate like sdl or xv.

You can setup your default vo in your ~/.mplayer/mplayer.conf file.

btw you can run
mplayer -vo help
to get a list of supported output methodes, the same is true for -ao and most other options, this can give you more recent information than is included in the man page.

trickykid and 0x0001....

That did it for the mplayer!!!! Thanks.

But, now...one more problem with the gui side. It looks like the gmplayer binary file was created..but nothing else. No config files or skins or man pages. Is there a step I missed in there somewhere? I see in the "./configure --help" that I could have specified directories for the man pages, config files, etc. I didn't do that when I ran configure, because I thought that it would use a default directory.

This is only my second or third time to install by tar, and it is quite a learning process. I am thankful for your help.


[chris@GODZILLA chris]$ gmplayer -vo x11 0040.mpeg
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90pre10-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

[cfg] read config file: /home/chris/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local display)
Reading /home/chris/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/chris/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 44 audio & 110 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/chris/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
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/chris/.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/chris/.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 ).

Before you can use the GUI player, you'll at least need a skin for it. It will still work without fonts but to stop those errors you would want to go ahead and install those as well....

I got it now!!! thanks all.

I wasn't aware that I needed to manually download and install the fonts and skins. It runs great now. I was also confused about the config files, but I take it that they are not required for the player to run.

Thanks again!

Chris

Hey newbie here

(been reading this thread)

I too am having a bit of trouble with installing mplayer

I know where I'm stuck though lol..For some reason I've downloaded the updated libraries (http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandra...-1mdk.src.html)
and it still won't ./configure properly..

I am running mandrake 9

I did a list of all the rpm packages I've installed and gcc-3.2-1rpm shows up :/

How do I like activate it? or something(something to do with having 2 libraries or something)...thanks...(

well that is a source rpm. yo'ev no reason to compile gcc, just install the binary rpm's that are on your mandrake cd's. but then surely you'd just rather install mlpayer from rpm itself anyway? it's not as good as frmo source, but easier to get going.

So if I install from rpm (mplayer) I won't need to have the updates?

...

well no, as you're updating so you can compile mplayer, but if you install rpm then you don't need to compile it anyway. it is probably a good idea to upgrade anyway, but not essential.

I've downloaded the rpm file..

and it has come up with the following errors..

Failed dependencies:

etc etc

Do I just continue on with trying to find the libraries that are missing? (eg. libggi, etc)

Also whats a file.src.rpm? whats the src I know bout the ver. and all...and i586? i386 any difference?

well you don't need ggi to make it work (welcome to the restrictions of rpms) so you could install it usnga --nodeps option to get around that one inparticular, but others may be more essential.

i586 = pentium or newer
i386 = 386 or newer

always go for the best you can

Hahh I'm so happy I got it all installed now for a test run LMAO...Thanks ppl