MPlayer in RH9

willieho · 07-04-2003, 11:00 PM

Hi everyone

I recently used apt-get to install MPlayer on my Thinkpad running RH9. However, when I run "gmplayer", I get a window where the video is supposed to be, with a black splotch where I suppose the play, fast forward, reverse, etc controls are supposed to be. Is there something in particular I need to do before the GUI will work? I do get messages about configuration not existing, but I don't even know where to begin to configuring it.

graffitici · 07-05-2003, 05:15 AM

I also installed Mplayer on my RH9 and it works ok for now. What i did was to downloade the sources that compile them with:
./configure --enable-gui

that's what the documentation says. It is working under KDE right now. Maybe if you tried that...

willieho · 07-05-2003, 10:04 AM

OK, I'm trying to install MPlayer now by compiling the source. However, now when I try to configure before compiling the source, I get a message that says I need "X11 support required for GUI installation." How do I find which library to compile for X11?

acid_kewpie · 07-05-2003, 10:35 AM

you need XFree86-devel

Ju Deddo Koinu · 07-09-2003, 02:02 PM

...is only showing up black splotches is:

"As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if you want to use the GUI."

taken from the mplayer website docs http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/#gui

synecdoche · 07-09-2003, 04:06 PM

My advice is to do apt-get install synaptic

After that installs run synaptic (under system settings in Gnome), look under applications-multimedia, and get mplayer through there. It is by far, in my opinion, the easiest way to get it going. You can also get the Win32 Codecs and the browser plugin with Synpatic in the same place. It is fast and easy.

Now, if someone can tell me how to get mplayer to be my plugin for realvideo files...

-dave