I installed MPlayer and everything was going great, for awhile. I installed the following packages...

mplayer-vidix-1.0pre5-2
mplayer-1.0pre5-2
mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-2
mplayer-skin-default-1.4-1
mplayer-common-1.0pre5-2
mplayer-vidix-nVidia-1.0pre5-2

Now I cannot play anything in mplayer. When I start DVD's everything looks as though it is about to play but nothing. When I scan I can see images on the DVD but it will not physically play. Normal mpg's don't play as well. Pretty much what I want to do is uninstall everything and then start over. But, when I do that something is left and when I reinstall, I have all my old settings back.

Any help in this matter, would be awesome... Thanks

I would also like to add that I have deleted my /root/.mplayer directory which gets rid of my settings, but does not fix the problem. I'm starting to think that something else that I installed is conflicting. Does anyone have any resources for troubleshooting mplayer?

I have also attached the printout that I get when starting gmplayer from the command line....
MPlayer 1.0pre5-RPM-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 2205 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 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
Creating config file: /root/.mplayer/config
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Disabling DPMS
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Device or resource busy (it should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'

Playing dvd://1.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 12 titles on this DVD.
There are 28 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 7500.0 kbps (937.5 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 448.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 56000->192000 (448.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
Successfully enabled DPMS.272 ct: 0.003 4/ 3 0% 0% 0.0% 0 0 27%

Then it sticks at this point...

I think the command to Uninstall MPlayer is

[root@myhost MPlayer-1.0pre5]# make uninstall


Anyway, I found
This guide for MPlayer very useful in installing MPlayer.

unfortunately I installed from rpms, that command is used when you build from source...

Thanks though....

Maybe I'll try to build from source and see if that fixes my problem...

seems very strange... are you running this from the ui or through a console? always go from a console to troubleshoot, and add a couple of -v's to the command line. may well tell you what it's sticking on. also make sure you try alternative video and audio outputs (including nulls and files if possible)

either way it will freeze. I have uninstalled everything and I am compiling it from source right now. Maybe that will fix my problem. I'll post back when I am done...

Thanks for all the help...

alright, so after compiling and everything. I had the same problem....

I resorted to reinstalling my OS since it is a rather new build anyway. As soon as I got everything back up to par I attempted to run mplayer after installing from the rpms. It worked perfectly again. So I moved on to setting up my tvtime program. Everything is fine. I am running with a CRT Monitor and a 27'" TV Hooked up with S-video as a second desktop. I run the TV on the second desktop all the time and play DVDs with mplayer from time to time. I happened to open MPlayer while I had TVTime open and all hell broke loose. TVTime is unaffected but MPlayer spazzed out. It will only play audio with a black picture. After messing with a few settings like my vid out devices I was able to either play audio or video or managed to make it crash. Does anyone have any ideas on what's up? This seems really stupid. And even after a restart I have the same problem...

Ahh, forget it. I switched over to Xine to play my movies now. 10x better. Thanks for all the help though. If anyone has anymore ideas, I'm open still...

well you never provided any useful errors like i suggested. sounds like a video output issue... try x11 output