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help running mplayer gui on redhat linux

i had mplayer install on my redhat linux 9, and after i copy the font and skin file into the correct directory, i try by using gmplayer and it come out as follow
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 1994 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /home/wangjiahong/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/wangjiahong/.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/wangjiahong/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup
scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/wangjiahong/.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
SKIN dir 1: '/home/wangjiahong/.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 ).
it cannot recognise the skin file. :confused:
whatś wrong with it? i need help to make it recognise the skin file.
thanks

In /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin you need to have a skin called default.
I use the neutron skin as default, so in the Skin directory I have the neutron dir. Since I want this to be the default I simply symlink "default" to the neutron dir:

Code:

hw@baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin$ ls -l

total 4

drwxr-xr-x    2 root    staff        4096 2003-01-29 23:01 neutron/

hw@baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin$ su

Password: 

baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin# ln -s neutron/ default

baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin# ls -l

total 4

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    staff          8 2003-10-23 12:28 default -> neutron//

drwxr-xr-x    2 root    staff        4096 2003-01-29 23:01 neutron/

baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin# exit

exit

hw@baron:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin$

Håkan

When you installed, did you do it like this:
./configure

or

./configure --enable-gui

The second is the correct option for using gmplayer.

If you did it the first way, you will have to start again by issuing ./configure --enable-gui, make and (as root) make install.

You will also need to download and install the codecs.

Since mplayer is searching for the skins it should be compiled with GUI support enabled and there should be no need to do it all over again.

Håkan

Interestingly, and after rereading the error messages, I also received the exact same error message. I am guessing that this is the V1.0pre2 download.

It appears that mplayer isn't writing all of it's .conf files, which I think are there to tell mplayer about it's behaviour and look. (sounds like a strict teacher!:p)

I too would like to know how this can be fixed, I am running SuSE 9.0. I wonder if it's a bug?

thank you a lot, now i have my mplayer running perfectly and i can change the skin as i want

Quote:

Originally posted by XavierP
I too would like to know how this can be fixed, I am running SuSE 9.0. I wonder if it's a bug?

may be for SuSE as i m running it on Slack and Mandrake without any problems. :confused: