Hello to all. I'm new to mplayer, have it installed and can't figure out
this skins & other errors. May I have some advice please?
Thanks, Dirk


]# /usr/bin/mplayer
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron SF Spitfire (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
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 1024x768 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: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
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
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'
[skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found ( default ).

[skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.

Go to mplayer's site and grab the default skin. Put it in /usr/share/mplayer/Skin. You could also make a direcrory called .mplayer in your home directory for a new config file, etc.

What do I do with the .tar.bz2 files now?
Skin]# ls -lah
total 2.8M
drwxr-xr-x 2 booda root 4.0K May 26 13:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K May 26 12:57 ..
-rw------- 1 booda booda 214K May 26 08:40 Blue-1.0.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 101K May 26 08:40 Canary-1.0.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 242K May 26 08:40 CornerMP-aqua-1.0.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 360K May 26 08:40 gnome-1.1.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 251K May 26 08:40 krystal-1.0.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 303K May 26 08:40 Orange-1.0.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 443K May 26 08:41 plastic-1.1.1.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 315K May 26 08:41 proton-1.1.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 300K May 26 08:41 softgrip-1.0.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 booda booda 262K May 26 08:41 trium-1.1.tar.bz2
How do prepare them for use?

decompress the archives in to the directory it is looking for, and symlink your chosen one to default.

tar -xvvjf

Will get them extracted....

The new default skin is Blue. Rename the blue theme to default and put in /usr/local/share/mplayer/skin.
P.S.: excuse my bad english

Is this the proper command to rename?

Skin]# rename Blue-1.0.tar to default-1.0.tar

because it doesn't work.

I've got /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/ , now how do I go about getting to /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin?

[root@localhost root]# mkdir /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin': No such file or directory

please follow the commands you were given above.

tar -xvvjf file.tar.bz2

this would not have left you with a .tar file, but a directory containing the skin.

rename is also not a valiud unix command, use "mv" in future.

Thank you!

first you need to create default directory and then skin within default - this is a proper and only way
cd /usr/share/mplayer/Skin
mkdir default
mkdir default/skin
but as acid put it earlier there is no need to whore your system up with unneeded directories and crap
just go to /usr/share/mplayer/Skin
cd /usr/share/mplayer/Skin
tar xfvj /full/or/relative/path/to/Blue-1.0.tar.bz2
ln -sf Blue* default
should be enough, so in the case you want new default theme just perform the above steps for another theme.