Mplayer and its darned gui
 

Ive been trying to do this one all on my own, but i just can figure out how to install the gui...i downloaded the font and the skins....please help?:newbie:

Did you ./configure --enable-gui or did you install it as a package?

no when i install the rpms it doesnt make a directory so i dont know where to compile it, it says it did it with: Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection

oh well obviously i just installed it as a package, any help here?

can you start the mplayer gui with
gmplayer
?

My suggestion is to then remove any and all mplayer related packages, and get apt-get.

use apt-get to install something like gxine or xine with your mplayer packages
i think gxine/xine uses mplayer at the backend?

ok i have apt, i have synaptic. now i when rpm -e mplayer it just goes to the next line int the terminal...nothing happens not even [root@pppa32-city-1r7114 drof]# comes up.....im confused

ok im an idiot i just realized how to get them off with synaptic. Clean slate....how should i install mplayer now?

First make sure an remove any packages you installed when you first tried to install mplayer. Then from the comand line, do
#apt-get install mplayer

when i do that nothing happens....

[drof@pppa32-city-1r7114 drof]$ #apt-get install mplayer
[drof@pppa32-city-1r7114 drof]$ ****( THIS LINE IS BLANK)*******

can i do it from synaptic?

just download the source and compile it, its way easier than installing from rpms and it installs nearly everything u need. if u are using a unsupported compiler just tell it to ignore the compiler and walla u good to go

ok im all compiled, and installed, now where does teh gui and fonts go?

I downloaded all the rpms I needed, then just did rpm -ivh *.rpm (making a special directory for it to put all the downloads in; really easy that way). I got the gui to work that way, so if nothing else works try getting the rpms. (are you using the source?) What rpms?

using the source, i did MPlayer-1.0pre2.tar.bz2 and compiled it, it runs, and i have downlaoded the AlienMind-1.1.tar.bz2 skin with the font....i beleive i need the codecs, and then i need to know where wo put the skins...im not sure you tell me