Newbie trying to install MPlayer

squall1986 · 11-15-2006, 02:26 PM

Alright so I am running FC5 and I installed MPlayer from the source files found on the website http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html. I followed the instructions found on the website and everything and I think it installed just fine. But when I run it through the terminal with "mplayer" it just gives me the command prompt stuff because I didn't install the gui stuff. How can I go about enabling the gui for MPlayer now?

johnson_steve · 11-15-2006, 02:38 PM

if it was compiled with gui support there is a separate binary named gmplayer that has the gui mplayer is the cli one.

slakmagik · 11-15-2006, 03:01 PM

Actually, gmplayer is a symlink to the GUI-enabled binary. 'mplayer -gui' will also work. As johnson_steve says, you have to explicitly '--enable-gui' to get that. So if his suggestion doesn't work that means you didn't do that and you'll need to recompile with that option if you want it.

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot · 11-15-2006, 03:29 PM

yup. you will have to recompile with that option. the gui is not enabled in mplyer by default. I would however recomend installing it through yum instead. just enter the command : "yum install mplayer" if you have the livna reposotories. also dont forget the codecs....

infact just use this tutorial, ive found it extremely useful
http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora...ion_notes.html

johnson_steve · 11-17-2006, 07:42 PM

what do you know it is a symlink

john_smith · 11-18-2006, 04:17 AM

Try to search for this rpm

mplayer-gui
and it will work fine

squall1986 · 11-19-2006, 11:19 PM

Alright, so I've learned how to use yum and I've gotten this to work fine, thank you for your help.

lpn1160 · 11-19-2006, 11:58 PM

from the install docs:
2.5. What about the GUI?
The GUI needs GTK 1.2.x or GTK 2.0 (it isn't fully GTK, but the panels are). The skins are stored in PNG format, so GTK, libpng (and their devel stuff, usually called gtk-dev and libpng-dev) has to be installed. You can build it by specifying --enable-gui during ./configure. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you have to execute the gmplayer binary.
Currently you can't use the -gui option on the command line, due to technical reasons.
As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if you want to use the GUI. See the download page. They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory ($PREFIX/share/mplayer/skins), or to $HOME/.mplayer/skins. MPlayer by default looks in these directories for a directory named default, but you can use the -skin newskin option, or the skin=newskin config file directive to use the skin in */skins/newskin directory.

Sorry, see you got it working