Getting Mplayer to work...... Help!
 

Hi all I'm having problems getting Mplayer to work. Here's what I have done to this point.

I downloaded Mplayer-0.92.tar.bz2, I unpacked it, changed to that directory, and then configured the source with ./configure --enable-gui. That all went well. I then compiled with the make command. That all seemed to go well, I didn't have any errors. I then switched to become root and installed Mplayer with make install. It installed fine, no errors.

Now at this point I don't have any skins or fonts. So I downloaded fonts and one skin, I think it's the default, but not sure. I unpack them to /usr/local/share/mplayer/skin and /usr/local/share/mplayer/font. Now here's my problem. I can't seems to get the gui to work and get it to work in the terminal. I'm thinking to much like windows, having been using Linux for just about a month now. BTW I'm using Suse 9.0. What directory is the executable stored? I've heard something about the config file for Mplayer, do I need to set it up or something?

It seems like there are bits of Mplayer everywhere in the root directory. is this normal for programs to do this? Any help would be great. :D

Thanks,
chevy:D

The command for mplayer is "mplayer", but the graphical one is gmplayer and not just mplayer. I hope this helps. :)

Ok, this is what I get when i type gmplayer in the terminal:


steve@linux:~> gmplayer
MPlayer 0.92-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
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 for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/steve/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/steve/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/steve/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Disabling DPMS
Reading /home/steve/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/steve/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
font: can't open file: /home/steve/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/steve/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
SKIN dir 1: '/home/steve/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'
[skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found ( default ).
steve@linux:~>


What do I need to do to get it to work?


Chevy

I have no idea because it my the directories for me when I ran it. I found a tutorial on it before, but I'm not sure where it is anymore because I only used it to find out where the skins directory was.

Ok, you have to dowload a skin and rename the skin to default. Then move the skin to /home/<usrname>/.mplayer/Skin then you can run the command gmplayer. Mplayer doesn't come with any skins, so you have to go to the site to download one.

It might also be a good idea to stick the skin in /usr/share/mplayer/Skin and call it default so it will work for all users. I didn't know this because when I emerged it in Gentoo, I was given the blue skin as default.

Ok here's what I have done now. I renamed the skin I downloaded to "default" and put it in /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin. Now when I run gmaplyer in terminal this what i get:

steve@linux:~> gmplayer
MPlayer 0.92-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
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 for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/steve/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/steve/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/steve/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Disabling DPMS
Reading /home/steve/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/steve/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
font: can't open file: /home/steve/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/steve/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
SKIN dir 1: '/home/steve/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

Exiting... (Exit)
steve@linux:~>

Now it looks like to me that my font is not correct or setup right. Where do the fonts need to go so mplayer will work?

Thanks alot so far,
Chevy:D

In the /usr/local/share/mplayer/font directory put the contents of one of the fonts that you downloaded into that directory.

When I compiled mplayer I had to use the following flag to make the gui work "--enable-gui". After this I had no problems starting mplayer using the command "gmplayer" under gnome. For the fonts I unpacked them in /usr/local/share/mplayer/font. Now if I only had a faster cpu I could watch my dvd's like I could on my dvd player :(

Ok, I now have only one font in /usr/local/share/mplayer/font , just the font no folder with the font in it. It works now!! WooHoo!:D

Now to get it to work I have to type gmplayer in a terminal. What I would like to do is have an Icon to click on instead of typing. How would I go about doing that? Is it possible?

I also want to thank all who giving me a push in the right direction

Cheers,
chevy:D :D

Just right click on the desktop and at the "Create New" sub menu go to "Link to Application..." and then at under the execute tab put "gmplayer". The mplayer icon can be found in your skin directory under icons. This is if your using kde and not gnome. I don't know how to do it in gnome cause i don't use it.

gabebster

Thanks alot, but I was wondering ...where do I find the ...like .exe or link to launch the app? I was able t find the icon and created the link.

Thanks,
Chevy

The "exe" for gmplayer is in /usr/local/bin.

gabebster

Thanks for all the help. I miss read your last post. You said to just type gmplayer into the execute tab and I thought it said something else for whatever reason. :p

I did that and now the link works and the whole program works!! :D :D

One other thing I would like to know is when I have a .avi or a divx or wma....whatever ... how do I set mplayer to be the default player for these types of files? Basically I want to be able to click on the file and have mplayer play it not Noatun.

Thanks,
Chevy :D

If you're using KDE, then right click on a file of the type you want to change (i.e. if you want to associate .avi files with Mplayer, right click on an .avi file), and choose Edit file type...

In the windows that pops up, you should see the application preference listed at the bottom... click on mplayer, and then click on Move up until it's at the top. If mplayer is not there, then click Add and add it from the window that pops up.

Cheers,
Dizzy V.