I have it installed

but I cant to play a movie or video file

Im thinking mabey the codecs arent in it how do I put them in I downloaded the package of win32 codecs fromt he mplayer site somebody please help

Here is a good tutorial:
www.tuxpower.f2g.net
It was a bit easier to understand than the mplayer documentation

how do I install the codecs I have them and they are unzipped ?

let me know I want to watch somthing really badly

wtf why is it I cant gt help around here anymore...

that link doesnt even work!

I recommend you go to http://valhalla.freshrpms.net/ and install apt:

http://valhalla.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=586

Then installation is as easy as:

apt-get install mplayer

that is how I did install it...



ok I installed the codecs so you tell me what the problem is....Im trying to play an .AVI file

and I get an error that says
cant't find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564944!

thats the error I put the codecs in and everything but its still finding them I used the .rpm files for the codecs btw

and also there might be somthing wrong with my config file all it says in it are write your own default config options here or somthing like that

or if I change the preferances a little bit I get

Fatal error

opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device!

From my experience you are better off to download the source MPlayer-0.90.tar.bz2 and compile it yourself. Sometimes the RPM's you get don't have all the codecs and installing them from RPM's just sometimes does not work.

After fighting with problems like yours I started downloading the source and I have not had any problems since.

dave

I cant install from source I just dont know how...

and when I try I have troubles

Did you try other video output drivers? You can list the available drivers like this:

gmplayer -vo help


You can also grab a rpm with the win32 codecs here:

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br....52-1.i386.rpm

If you can run gui, into properties/options (use mouse right click into the gui) you can go into video and try the options there such as Xv, X11, vo and anything else there until you get it open the files properly...

I only have three differnt options there
xv
x11
xvidix

and none of them work

Although when I set it to x11 I get
Can't find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564944

to install these codecs you just rpm -ivh right nothing else?

by the way I have the codecs installed already it just seems that Mplayer isnt finding them how do I set Mplayer to use them?

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aww no000 sorry for the double post....it was an accident...

To use the win codecs I believe you need to put it in a folder /usr/lib/win32/ I think it is, but it probably says so in the Readme file for the package. Anyway you need to have all the codecs you are going use with mplayer, before you compile. So you have to recompile if you get new codecs.

I think I saw something about you using rpms, well I am not very familiar with em, but i believe you can just use a update option to do the changes in mplayer that you need to make it work.

something like this:
rpm -U mplayer.rpm

Anyway for more details about this take a look here

when I type "gmplayer -vo help" it show me more options than the gui shows me:

Available video output drivers:
xv X11/Xv
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
gl X11 (OpenGL)
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
fbdev Framebuffer Device
aa AAlib
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
gif89a animated GIF output
null Null video output
pgm PGM file
md5 MD5 sum
mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
vesa VESA VBE 2.0 video output
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)


Maybe "gmplayer -vo sdl" or something else will work for you

Your profile says you are currently using Redhat 7.3. I'm thinking that's probably because you haven't updated it and are currently running RH9.

If you are then you can use apt-get and Synaptic combination to get out of dependency hell. I used to have tremedous problems getting media players to work and its a cinch now. If you need help installing apt-get and Synaptic, let me know...