How come I am not able to install mplayer... the following error occurs and I am not able to make anything out of it



[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# ls
gaim-0.64-1.i386.rpm mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm
mencoder-0.90-1.i686.rpm xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# rpm -ivh mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
error: Failed dependencies:
mplayer = 0.90 is needed by mplayer-common-0.90-1
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]#

you need to mplayer-0.90 package too.. speaks for itself really...

When I tried to install mplayer-9.0 ... it asks for skin, and when i try to install skin it asks for gui stuff, and it is going on round-and-round

How can I install mplayer... can someone guide me through this?

Thanks in Advance...

[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# rpm -ivh mplayer-gui-0.90-1.i386.rpm
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
error: Failed dependencies:
mplayer-skin is needed by mplayer-gui-0.90-1
mplayer-common = 0.90 is needed by mplayer-gui-0.90-1
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# rpm -ivh mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
error: Failed dependencies:
mplayer = 0.90 is needed by mplayer-common-0.90-1
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# rpm -ivh mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
error: Failed dependencies:
mplayer-gui is needed by mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]#

just put them all on one single line

rpm -Uvh m-common.rpm m-skins.rpm mplayer.rpm

what i did:
just put them all in single line:
rpm -i --force mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90-1.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm

three warnings may come, but player runs nicely.

Hope the warning looked as follows:::

[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# rpm -i --force mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90-1.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]#

I haven't yet checked, can mplayer play all of avi, dat, mpg?

[ashesh@ecl5 linux_sw]$ mplayer
bash: mplayer: command not found
[ashesh@ecl5 linux_sw]$

Why does this erros come up after the mplayer is supposed to have been installed?

you have NOT installed mplayer yet. you should NEVER use --force unless you know why you are using it, you clearly had an error message about saying it needed the actual mplayer rpm itself, which I replied about... try reading the reply again

why not check yourself? http://mplayerhq.hu

hi acid_k here's is what i have done as per ur reply...

[root@ecl5 ashesh]# cd linux_sw/
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# rpm -Uvh mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90-1.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package mplayer-common-0.90-1 is already installed
package mplayer-gui-0.90-1 is already installed
package mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2 is already installed
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]#

But when I give:

mplayer -vc help

to list all the avaiable codecs, it says mplayer not found...

[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# ls
ayttm-0.3.2-1.i386.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90-1.i386.rpm
gaim-0.64-1.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
mplayer-0.90-1.i386.rpm xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm
mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]# rpm -Uvh mplayer-0.90-1.i386.rpm mplayer-common-0.90-1.i3
86.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90-1.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package mplayer-common-0.90-1 is already installed
package mplayer-gui-0.90-1 is already installed
package mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2 is already installed
[root@ecl5 linux_sw]#


is there some mistake that I am making?

yes, now they are already installed you can't install them again, just install mplayer.rpm by itself, or remove the others first.

thanks acid, finally i was able to install mplayer....

but when I tried to play a avi file.. the follwoing messages came up

Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/ashesh/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/ashesh/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/ashesh/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds

Playing tom.avi

Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [DIV3] 352x240 24bpp 29.97 fps 763.5 kbps (93.2 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 8000->176400 (64.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local display)


Exiting... (End of file)

there are no critical errors there... are you sure there was nothing else? try using "-vo x11" or "-vo xv" incase it can't use the desired video output... other than that there's nothing to guess at... tried a different avi? that's only a divx3 encoding.. shouldn't be a problem though.

well when I tried to play a mpg file:

mplayer britney.mpg it says the following:

Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/ashesh/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/ashesh/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/ashesh/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds

Playing britney.mpg

Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 352x240 (aspect 12) 29.97 fps 1152.0 kbps (144.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local display)
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support, and read Xv section of DOCS/video.html !
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) vid

and with xvinfo I get:
X-vidoe extension2.2
screen #0
no adaptor found