i installed mplayer-0.90 on my slack box and everything seems to be ok. im getting no read errors... heres my mplayer -vo help output
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/fatal/.mplayer/
Reading config file /home/fatal/.mplayer/config
Available video output drivers:
xmga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window (using /dev/mga_vid)
mga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid)
xv X11/Xv
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
gl X11 (OpenGL)
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
fbdev Framebuffer Device
svga SVGAlib
aa AAlib
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
gif89a animated GIF output
null Null video output
pgm PGM file
md5 MD5 sum
mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
vesa VESA VBE 2.0 video output
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
i compile mplayer with gui support. now, the funny thing is, when i type in "gmplayer" i get this....
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/fatal/.mplayer/
Reading config file /home/fatal/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/fatal/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/fatal/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /home/fatal/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
Font /home/fatal/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Input config file /home/fatal/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds
SKIN dir 1: '/home/fatal/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'
and thats it. no skin, no nothing. it leaves the cursor blinking so i guess it thinks that its running. when i hit ctrl-\ to kill it i get an error...
Fatal Error!
MPlayer interupted by signal 3 in module: unknown.
so, does anyone know what is up with this error? your help is appreciated