I tried to install mplayer. I get this error message when using it:

[root@PC mplayer]# gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre1-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No
such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 60 audio & 156 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds
SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'

..and nothing happends until I press ctrl+c.
then I got message: MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: unknown

Distro is redhat 9.

mplayer ordinarily would be run by a regular user, not root. In any event, you need to supply a file name as a parameter, eg, "mplayer abc.mpg" or whatever. Just typing "mplayer" is insufficient. -- J.W.

Do you have a Skin installed to:
/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin and is it named "default"?

Cool

Now its working.. Thanx!

You're welcome

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