Dear all
i have Suse 10.2 and working fine and because i want move my windows to the trash can i try to run every thing on Suse but i have problem with some things , mainly with mplayer , i used to install it from http://packman.links2linux.org/ when i has Suse 10.0 and it give me the mplayer RPM file and what it need , all in one page so it was easy to install it , now i try to do the same but it give me only the main RPM file for mplayer and i try to find what it need to run but it's really hard to find every thing , at work i have Red Hat and it was so easy to install every thing i need with yum install mplayer mplayer-gui , one step and every thing done , but here i couldn't because i do not have yum , so any one have any idea who to install it " i know there is a source code and i can compile it , but to be honest , i like to use RPM with Suse because it's more easy "

and then i try to run my web cam with it , but i will submit another thread for the web cam

Try installing mplayer through YaST. I believe YaST will pick up everything you will need. This thread might interest you " http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=509097 "

Dear Larry , thank you for your help and it was really easy to install mplayer but i still have a problem , the mplayer start but it only show me a big video window but i can not see the player it self , i uninstall and reinstall it again but it did not work , when i try to open a movie file with mplayer it just kill the player , i do not know if it need skin or it need codecs or it need both

Olva, I'm a Linus newbie and not real sure what I am doing with this stuff.
Having said that, here's how I installed mplayer on openSUSE 10.2 Gnome and it seems to work ok. Found this info somewhere on a Linux forum.

From the Packman site:

installed via Yast the following: mplayer, jmencode and the mplayer plugin for Netscape.

again with Yast, searched the Packman site for and installed w32codec-all.

lastly renamed a copy of the Arial font as subfont.ttf and placed that font copy in the folder ~/.mplayer

dears , i did every step you both told me and it was really usefull but , but now i have mplayer running from shell very well with command line and it has no problem , but when i open it from GUI i see only a big vedio window but i do not see the player it self , it's just like it's minmized or hiden , so i try to change the skin but i do not have any more skins , only the default skin , the plugins working very well with browser , my only problem that i can not see the player and when i try to run any movie from gui it it crash just like some one give the player kill -9 , maybe because i use xgl ? i do not know , i still search for a reason

I may be off base but what is you screen size and resolution

my screen size is 1024 x 768 , i see when i open mplayer this video screen i told you about and in the tray i see it's 2 application are open 1- the video screen and 2- is the player it self , but i do not see the player , and when i click on it it turn around the screen to desk top screen number 2 , just like the video window on desk top number 1 and the player it self on screen desk top 2 , i just want to know , why ? maybe i install a wrong packeg from mplayer , by the way you must know that before i use YaST i try it manually and i did not remove any packegs before install it through YaST because i do not remember what i installed already , and i think here is the problem , by the way , i use KDE not Gnome , but when i try to log in as root and use Gnome it still did not work , only video window and no player

Try this. If you can see the the player thing on the tray/panel of desktop 1, right click the player thing on the tray/panel and select "move to workspace up". Otherwise, go to desktop 2 and do the above. The video window and the player should now both be on desktop 1.

i just try it now but i can give me only 1 option when i right click on it " advanced " and from advanced there is keep above others or keep below others , i am now try to install new package of mplayer gui , i do not know if it will work or not , but i just try every thing , what strange it's working will as plugins in browsers and and it's working well from shell but as GUI player , it has this problem

when i try to install mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-3.i386.rpm , it give me some other rpms it needed but i can't find it any where which is :

XFree86-libs >= 4.0.3 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-3.i386
libtermcap.so.2 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-3.i386
mplayer-common = 2:1.0pre5 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-3.i386
mplayer-skin is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-3.i386

why it need all this if i already install it through YaST

Larry, Its not difficult to install Mplayer from the command promt. You get the source code, essantial codecs and skins from the Mplayer site and install it as per the instructions in the readme file from the command promt. It really worked out very good for me. The mplayer essential codec package have full multimedia capabilities, even for avi, dat, .gvi, .gp3, .... files.
Work out larry
-Binoy

Olva, I just installed KDE and see there are a few differences compared to Gnome.

In KDE the default desktop numbers are stacked vertically and when I open mplayer the video window and the player are stacked vertically in the tray beside the numbers one and two, but are actually both on desktop one. This can be confirmed by right clicking on each name in the tray.

If both are on the same desktop, but you only see the video window, try left clicking on the name of the player in the tray. This toggles the player screen display on and off on my system.

If the player is actually on desktop 2, right click on the player and select "to desktop" from the menu. This allows the choice of changing the desktop on which it resides.

i think i find out the problem but i did not try it till now , at work i have mplayer installed through yum and it is working find , i checked out the skin and i find that there is blue skin and default but here at my home computer i have suse 10.2 and when i open mplayer and check about the skins i find that i have only default skin and there is no blue skin , so i am going to install more skin but my problem now , i do not know how to install the skin , but i am searching for it