mplayer skin not readable

anon251 · 07-30-2006, 04:05 PM

Hi, im a newbie and require some help. I installed SUSE10. All is working. I downloaded mplayer and ./configure with the GUI option. Then make. Then make install.

When I run gmplayer, things start to run then I get error. Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.)
[skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default).

I have read other threads and downloaded default skin from mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

I put it into the dir in the error above. Did not work. I extraced the files into the same dir. Still get this error. I have been trying for last couple hours with no luck. Any help would be appreciated

detpenguin · 08-01-2006, 01:00 AM

go to the download site and under skins, download "blue". once you've downloaded it, as root, move it to /usr/local/share/mplayer/skin" and once it's there, rename "blue" to "default".
that should get it going for you.

dhinakaranmm · 08-01-2006, 02:22 AM

now i am installing redhat enterprise linux(kernel 2.6) i want to play mp3 songs and vedios. what is the procedure to get softwares and how it works

anon251 · 08-03-2006, 12:50 PM

thanks 4 all you help. i am making progress

anon251 · 09-17-2006, 11:56 AM

Hi, i have still the same error. what about the directory structure? the one u have given is different to the place where it seems to be looking for the skin. I tried dling the blue skin and rename and put into that directory, but it still does not work??

I have rebuilt my machine since I managed to break the X11 system, and since new it still does not work?

any suggestions i can try?

thanks