Glock you're using a really old package 0.90rc2 get the official 0.90 release (0.91 out soon apparently)

You're all welcome my friends

Is mplayer better than xine. Xine can play everything I want I just wish it had a few more options like playlists and 2x video size button.

Hi jbeedham!!!

Xine and mplayer are both great players. I personally prefer mplayer, but to play DVD's I still think xine is the best. If well compiled though, mplayer beats xine easily in speed. It's possible to have play lists on Xine.
When xine starts, clicking with your mouse middle button under xine windows will bring a gui. If you have an old 2 buttons mouse, you can call that gui, left click at xine screen and enable "gui" visibility.

At the extreme left of this gui, you have three small buttons:

playlist
control
open location

Clicking int playlist, will bring a self-explanatory window. Remember to save and load your playlist to make use of it.

Good luck.

I have Red Hat 9.

1. 2. 3. What is the problem? Thanks for any help.

try also:

apt-get update

then

apt-get install mplayer

That should do the trick, hopefully

"fr" = FreshRpms :-)

bye

I was having trouble using synaptic until I read this forum but I still having problems installing and using mplayer. after typing gmplayer the gui for mplayer comes up but does not respond but i get the following errors:

CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'

please help

Ijahson

I'm having simliar issues...I've spent 12 hours readign these post on mplayer and have tried everything, well, everything but what works.

I use ap-get like megamean suggests...here's my error:
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[root@localhost mpplayer]# mplayer
bash: mplayer: command not found
[root@localhost mpplayer]# apt-get install mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
aalib faad2 lame libdv libdvdcss libdvdread libfame libmad libpostproc lirc
lzo mplayer-fonts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
aalib faad2 lame libdv libdvdcss libdvdread libfame libmad libpostproc lirc
lzo mplayer mplayer-fonts
0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 removed and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8762kB of archives.
After unpacking 25.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/aalib_1.4rc5-3.fr_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 from install of lame-3.93.1-fr2 conflicts with file from package libmp3lame-3.95.1-1
E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (13)
[root@localhost mpplayer]#

I ran the apt-get update...I get the error below:
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[root@localhost mpplayer]# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
gthumb
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 1 not upgraded.
W: There are multiple versions of "xmms" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^xmms$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems


then I run the apt-get update as it suggest and get the error below:
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[root@localhost mpplayer]# apt-get update
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 release
Could not create a socket for 2001:770:18:2::1:3 (f=10 t=1 p=6) - socket (97 Address family not supported by protocol)
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/os pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/os release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/updates pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/updates release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms release
Failed to fetch http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/base/release Could not create a socket for 2001:770:18:2::1:3 (f=10 t=1 p=6) - socket (97 Address family not supported by protocol)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Release files for some repositories could not be retrieved or authenticated. Such repositories are being ignored.
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
[root@localhost mpplayer]#

so, It keeps going in one continuos loop...I spent the whole day and night yesterday getting the xmms stuff install...this seems to be causing a problem with versions or something. Any help would be great!