I installed mplayer and it worked properly. When i tried to install gmplayer, I did as described in the Readme file. I tried the following commands after installing the binaries for codecs.

./configure
./configure --enable-gui
make
su -c'make install'

after it got installed i created a symbolic link to a .ttf file in ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

and also installed skins in the correct folder and made a default folder too to contain the default skin.

when i run the gmplayer for the first time it worked. The next time I opened a there was a prompt saying that mplayer crashed.

Please help!

You can get a compiled version from livna or freshrpms.net
Also read this
http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora...ion_notes.html

ok will do .. thanks !

yeah it worked. but when i open it I get the error :


can you please help!

Thank you!

The problem is solved. The problem was because of the configuration files which I didn't delete after I had built gmplayer from source and uninstalled. When I built it from source, I had to choose a ttf font in a directory the X Window system will search for font. But the font I had chosen to be the target of ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf was not in one among those directories.

Thought this might be useful for other users who might face the same problem:

To add a font directory to be searched by x window system edit the following file:



/etc/X11/xfs/config or /etc/X11/fs/config (fc5)


search for the line beginning with "catalogue =" and add the directory to the list.


When you are building from source when you make the symbolic link ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf , make sure the target is in one of the directories searched by the XWindowsystem for fonts!

I took some of the information from http://www.linux.org.mt/node/51#N10057