MPlayer trials and tribulations (what else is new?)
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MPlayer trials and tribulations (what else is new?)
I installed MPlayer today but when can't get the application to open. I downloaded and unzipped fonts and skins. Don't know how to get those added though.
Secondly, when I typed "mplayer -vo help" in a console, it gave me the following error.."reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.config :No such file or directory"
Where do I go from here?
I misstated the previous. The font and skins were downloaded to a folder and
unzipped to thier proper places. The mplayer tar was downloaded front the official mplayer site and installed as per your instructions.
Here are the errors:
reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory.
Reading config file /home/loran1/.mplayer/config
reading /home/loran1/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/loran1/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf :50 audio &136 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/loran1/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (233 chars)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1-24): Permission denied
Tyr 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/loran1/.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
Sorry to dump all this on you but I really don't know what's pertinent to my problem and what's not.
Originally posted by loran
reading /home/loran1/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/loran1/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf :50 audio &136 video codecs
Look in the directory you compiled MPlayer for the etc/ directory. In there is a sample codecs.conf file. Copy that to your $HOME/.mplayer directory. MPlayer will then stop complaining about that file.
Quote:
font: can't open file: /home/loran1/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (233 chars)
Download the correct fonts package from MPlayer'ss website and extract it to where is says. MPlayer will stop complaining about that file also.
Quote:
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1-24): Permission denied
Tyr adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts
Do what it asks and add the mentioned line to rc.local or wherever you like to add things to init
Quote:
Can't open input config file /home/loran1/.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
Do the same for input.conf as codecs.conf. Get the sample from /Directory_MPlayer_was_extracted_to/etc
The only real error is the Linux RTC error, this seems to possibly be a bug in the version you've chosen, try older versions. The other errors aren't really errors but rather it cannot find one thing, so it moves to another possible location until it finds it, notice "loaded successfully" in the string for each of those.
As for:
mplayer -vo help
Giving an error, that is very odd, again, maybe a bug, try an older version.
the RTC issue is not a bug, it's an added feature in all 2.4.19pre6 and newer kernels which allows a much arbitrarily higher clock resolution to be used to improve application timing. the message should ideally mention that you need 2.4.20 really but it only says that.
i really wouldn't recommend trying to "fix" those error messages. if you upgrade mplayer ni the future then the codecs.conf that you copied will NOT be updated, and so might stop the program working, i'd recommend just ignoring the messages, you know that there is nothing wrong. if you really had to i'd asy you could symlink them, but still i don't think it's worth botehring with.
well whatever is causing the app to fail is nothign to do with the font.desc error, codecs.conf not input.conf, as you can see there for yourself that it uses falback files that will always be kept upto date. if you post the ENTIRE output there should be something in there...
At any rate, I did the "fixes" and extrated the fonts and skins (again). The only error I still get is...
"reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory"
Now, I did use "find files" to try find mplayer.conf--you know, in case it was somewhere else where it shouldn't have been but I don't have it anywhere.
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