i installed mplayer-gui with yum. (and mplayer)everything went fine. when i go to menu to start it initiates (get an hour glass) and then disappears. i'm wondering what i'm doing wrong? i'm assuming i have all dependencies. everything on fedora core 1 is updated. any suggestions?i've searched and goggled it but nothing.

BTW i'm a noob to linux and more to fedora so i would really,really appreciate detail.

try starting it from the command line and see if it prints errors. If it does them post them.

[root@localhost root]# gmplayer
Mplayer 1.0pre3-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 Mplayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/xeon/celeron Northwood 2532 Mhz (Family: 8, Stepping; 7)
Detected cache-line size is 62 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer.conf
[cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: x11 running at 1024x768 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 /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf' : No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/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 /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
can't init input joystick


mplayer interupted by signal 11 in module: unknown
- Mplayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and disassembly. details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
-MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the Mplayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc version. If you think it''s MPlayer's fault,please read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

I would try uninstalling and reinstalling it. It looks corrupted.