I have just installed mplayer from *.rpm


But i don't know how to get a skin/Gui ...with it.

NOw i can play media file with R_click..Open with ...type comand "mplayer". HIc It is not easy and cool to open a media file...

What should i do now...
Sorry for my English


Thanks to read

Welcome to LQ!

If you want to start mplayer in GUI mode, you use the command gmplayer. If the rpm you installed was compiled to support a GUI, mplayer will start using whatever skin is in ~/.mplayer/Skin/default. Personally, I have several different skins in ~/.mplayer/Skin and just set a soft link named default to point to the skin I want to use.

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Thank again

Dear Guider
When i use comand"gmplayer" Terminal show me that : "comand not found..."
So, i try to install mplayer from source.
but a error ...

I dont know what is called GCC 2.96 and what should i do to install mplayer support skin

PS : I AM USING FEDORA CORE 4

THANKS

GCC is the C compiler that is used by pretty much every Linux distro. What this error is telling you is that you have GCC version 4.0 installed, but that is too new a version to be supported by Mplayer. What you are going to need to do is either find an mplayer rpm package that has the gui compiled into it or you are going to need to find a gcc versions 3.x rpm and install that. Personally, I would spend some time trying to find an mplayer package because mixing versions of GCC can lead to some pretty ugly results.

Which LINUX distro do you use?
If you use Fedora, try installing mplayer with yum. And not mplayer, but gmplayer. the you could start it with the command "gmplayer" and it should have skin.
(If Debian: apt-get install gmplayer)

If you've installed mplayer only, or gmplayer, but you still don't have skin, look in the following directory:

/usr/local/share/mplayer

There you should find a directory Skin. If there's no such directory, make one. Be careful, make it with capital "S" - "Skin", not "skin". Then go to www.mplayerhq.hu or another mirror where you could download skins from. Download the Blue skin (default) or another one you would like. Extract it from the archive. You should get a directory "Blue" with files and directories in. Now move the whole Blue directory to the Skin directory you've created, to get the following:

/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue

Now try running the command "gmplayer".

I'm almost sure you wouldn't be able to run "gmplayer" if you've installed only mplayer and not gmplayer. So uninstall mplayer and install gmplayer.
(If you insist on installing gmplayer from source:

./configure --enable-gui
make
make install
)


Good Luck


P.S.
If from source, please read the README and INSTALL files from the MPlayer source directory.

I believe that you need the mplayer-gui rpm as well as the one you installed.

Thanks to all

But i dont know how to get an mplayer rpm package that has the gui compiled into it
I can not find it from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/


To : turnovg
thank for your infomation, but i can not install mplayer with skin.This is my problem.

I have search in forum but ...it not work with me.

Thanks to read

I have just searched a good doc :
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html

May be it can help me !
Thanks to all

That looks like a good guide, but be sure to pay attention to his FC4 warnings.

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But i dont know how to get an mplayer rpm package that has the gui compiled into it
I can not find it from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
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- This is the official web site of the mplayer project. In such sites you will rarely find compiled packages. The packages created by the authors are almost always uncompiled. It will be difficult for them to maintain the source of the program and compiled packages for different distribution. As a practice, maintainers of the distribution, could compile the program and include it in the oficial release.
In Fedora Linux you have mplayer compiled in (with gui) and the package, as someone already mentioned it, is named mplayer-gui or something like that.
The best way for installing compiled programs on your Fedora Linux, would be, I believe, "yum". It is a console program for automated installing/removing packages. The syntax should be like that:

yum install mplayer-gui
or something like that.

(try:

man yum

for all the available options)

Please find information about using yum. You will learn much and all the things about installing/removing packages will become much easier for you.

Another way of finding a compiled (.rpm) package for mplayer is to look at sites like the following:

freshmeat.net
rpmseek.net

Last but not least, ask a search engine like search.yahoo.com or gogle.com to find the package for you


Again, good luck

Thanks to Hangdog42 ,turnovg too much.
I am happy to join this forum.Yours forum is very useful.