Yes I did. Typing "--disable-ffmpeg" returns the following error "Unknown parameter '--disable-ffmpeg'.

I didn't try it with two dashes inbetween 'disable' and 'ffmpeg' though. It should be one, but I'll try it.

Thanks.

Nope: "Unknown parameter: --disable--ffmpeg"

I have had the same problems with MPlayer and now am loyal to Xine. Xine is much easier to use and the picture quality I get is excellent. Every now and then when I'm bored I try to get MPlayer working, but still have no luck. Trying to get MPlayer working makes me feel like a total newbie and I've been using Linux for ~4 years. But then again I read reviews where people with much more experience than me comment about how hard it is to get MPlayer working compared to Xine.

hi
i to have ben using Xine(with kaffeine) and Mplayerfor some good time
but the problem came up when i migrated from RH9.0 to FC2
here i have got the latest source from xinehq.de
and that did not go tht well as i used to get on RH 9.0
so i now have to depend on mplayer more(since kaffeine does not get install with xine here, some -selinux problem, i had posted that here,but got no results)
also i saw a poll on this forum where mplayer was given the best player

i think what matters here more is that
videos should run fine whether we use xine or mplayer

regards

Now you've done it! Guess I'm going to have to try to install MPlayer (again) to see if I can tell a difference with DVD playback.

masand, thanks. I am not the only one who is dissapointed with Mplayer. On some systems it seems to compile and run fine. On others, you don't have a chance. There are a lot of people who use Xine instead of Mplayer.

zajelo3, good luck.

Here's a good link from a person a little more in the know than me: http://dag.wieers.com/howto/dvd/ It compares the various video players.

Thanks for the link.

Hi guys,

I had some similar problems with xine hanging and it turned out that killing artsd helps sometimes. Once it happened to me that xine hanged because it was playing a file over an nfs link and the remote machine had been shut down. I tried to umount the share but it failed then i tried to forcibly umount it ( umount -f ) and it still failed. Then I killed all the rpc.* processes responsible for nfs and successfuly terminated the missbehaving processes.

Hope this helps you

Ahhh, you didn't hapen to notice that this post is almost three years old now?

Personally, I have moved on to a PowerMac G5. OSX is a great Unix distro.