Hi, I am a absolute newbie with Linux and have just installed RedHat 9. Having finally got amsn to run, now I am facing a lot of trouble in installing Mplayer. Though I have downloaded all the necessary files (player, gui, default skin, win32codec, font), this is where I have reached Installation wise::

ISSUE NO. 1:
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I did a plain install of MPlayer-1.0pre4 running './configure' without any options. Though the program got installed, I tried opening a .dat file with it and it played back ONLY the 'SOUND' with following as output:


[scorpion@localhost .gnome-desktop]$ mplayer A\ Biography\ of\
Dustbin.DAT
MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon Willamette 1515 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file
or directory
Reading config file /home/scorpion/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/scorpion/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/home/scorpion/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
font: can't open file: /home/scorpion/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your
system startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/scorpion/.mplayer/input.conf: No
such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No
such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing A Biography of Dustbin.DAT.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 352x288 (aspect 8) 25.000 fps 1120.0 kbps (140.0
kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0
kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
[fbdev2] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
VDec: using Mpeg PES as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [null] 352x288 => 384x288 Mpeg PES
Selected video codec: [mpegpes] vfm:mpegpes (Mpeg PES output (.mpg or
Dxr3/DVB card))
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Starting playback...
A: 89.2 V: 89.2 A-V: 0.002 ct: -0.220 2221/2221 0% 0% 1.2% 35
0 0%



ISSUE NO. 2
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Since the above thing didn't work out, this time I decided to run it with the gui. So I uninstalled Mplayer and ran configure again with the command:

./configure --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-menu

This threw up an error for me saying that I needed libpng and libpng-dev packages. I downloaded libpng-1.2.5.tar.gz and libpng-1.2.6beta2.tar.gz(which was shown as libpng-dev(el) at the site), installed them and again ran the above configure command. It threw up the same error message again which on checking in configure.log shows the following:



##########################################

============ Checking for PNG support ============

#include <png.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(void) {
printf("png.h : %s\n", PNG_LIBPNG_VER_STRING);
printf("libpng: %s\n", png_libpng_ver);
return (strcmp(PNG_LIBPNG_VER_STRING, png_libpng_ver));
}

cc /tmp/mplayer-conf-18350-8333.c -o
/tmp/mplayer-conf-21709-8333.o -lpng -lz -lm

ldd /tmp/mplayer-conf-21709-8333.o
libpng.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 (0x40024000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40047000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40055000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

png.h : 1.2.6beta2
libpng: 1.2.2
Result is: no (mismatch of library and header versions)
##########################################


Now, Someone please help me play a normal .mpg or vcd using mplayer. Please and thank you in advance.

You've installed two versions. try again but install the matching development version to the lib. either both 1.2.6beta2 or both 1.2.2 not one of each.

Hi,
I have same problem. I understand that you say there are two versions. But how should I solve this problem?

Hate to sound like a broken record...

Remove any offending mplayer packages then grab apt:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i386.rpm.html

# rpm -ivh apt...

# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade

# apt-get install mplayer

Try the official MPlayer RPMs:

http://greysector.rangers.eu.org/apt.html

Thanks! It worked finally with your help.
But with apt-get I couldn't install it but I could manage to update it afterall!

ok im a total newb to linux and i have been having problems trying to install player on redhat 9. I did exactly what he said in this post
Hate to sound like a broken record...

Remove any offending mplayer packages then grab apt:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/sta...g.i386.rpm.html

# rpm -ivh apt...

# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade

# apt-get install mplayer

but every time i try to start up mplayer all i get is sound and no video.
so i tried to do what he said up there, but all i get each time now is
[root@Tutak root]# rpm -ivh apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag.i386.rpm
warning: apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /etc/apt/apt.conf from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /etc/apt/rpmpriorities from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /etc/apt/vendors.list from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/bin/apt-cache from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/bin/apt-cdrom from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/bin/apt-config from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/bin/apt-get from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/bin/apt-shell from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/bin/genbasedir from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/bin/genpkglist from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/bin/gensrclist from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/bzip2 from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/cdrom from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/copy from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/file from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpg from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/gzip from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/http from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/rsh from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/apt/methods/ssh from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.0 from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man5/apt.conf.5.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man5/sources.list.5.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man5/vendors.list.5.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cache.8.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cdrom.8.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man8/apt-config.8.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90
file /usr/share/man/man8/apt.8.gz from install of apt-0.5.15cnc6-3.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90

i tried a few times to earse mplayer and install it yet again from the package, but i get the same results each time...
so if anyone can give me any suggestions and if u need more info about my comp then tell me...anywase thanks

You've already got apt. The command should have been...

rpm -Uvh apt...

My bad.

i keep on getting the same mistakes..look i tried those last two commands and i got errors on both of them. (something about having two many j2re's in my system..even though i did what it said on the warning)

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
gaim grip mplayer swh-plugins xawtv
The following packages will be REPLACED:
libmrproject (by planner) mrproject (by planner) xchat (by xchat2)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
aalib divx4linux faad2 fftw gnutls gtkspell id3lib lame libdvdcss libdvdread libgcrypt
libpostproc libquicktime libzvbi lirc mplayer-fonts opencdk planner vte xchat2 xvidcore
5 upgraded, 21 newly installed, 3 replaced, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 38.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://newrpms.sunsite.dk redhat/en/i386/9.0/newrpms xchat2 2.0.5-1 [729kB]
Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms faad2 2.0-0.1.rc1.fr [417kB]
Get:3 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag aalib 1.4.0-5.0.rh9.dag [108kB]
Get:4 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag divx4linux 5.0.5-0.dag.rh90 [397kB]
Get:5 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/os vte 0.10.25-1 [548kB]
Get:6 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag fftw 2.1.5-4.0.rh9.dag [459kB]
Get:7 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag gtkspell 2.0.6-1.0.rh9.dag [26.2kB]
Get:8 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag gaim 1:0.82.1-1.0.rh9.dag [3316kB]
Get:9 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag libgcrypt 1.1.12-1.0.rh9.dag [164kB]
Get:10 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag opencdk 0.4.5-1.0.rh9.dag [88.7kB]
Get:11 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag gnutls 0.8.10-1.0.rh9.dag [239kB]
Get:12 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag id3lib 3.8.3-7.0.rh9.dag [247kB]
Get:13 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag lame 3.96-1.rh90.dag [580kB]
Get:14 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag libdvdcss 1.2.8-4.0.rh9.dag [36.5kB]
Get:15 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag libdvdread 0.9.4-5.0.rh9.dag [56.7kB]
Get:16 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag libpostproc 1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag [40.5kB]
Get:17 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag libquicktime 0.9.3-1.0.rh9.dag [495kB]
Get:18 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag libzvbi 0.2.4-0.dag.rh90 [155kB]
Get:19 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag lirc 0.6.6-4.dag.rh90 [196kB]
Get:20 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag xvidcore 1.0.1-1.0.rh9.dag [257kB]
Get:21 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag mplayer-fonts 1.1-2.0.dag [1038kB]
Get:22 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag mplayer 1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag [6800kB]
Get:23 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag planner 0.12.1-1.0.rh9.dag [1990kB]
Get:24 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag grip 1:3.2.0-1.rh90.dag [459kB]
Get:25 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag swh-plugins 0.4.7-1.0.rh9.dag [437kB]
Get:26 http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386/dag xawtv 3.92-1.rh90.dag [840kB]
Fetched 20.1MB in 2m21s (142kB/s)
Committing changes...
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/share/mplayer/font from install of mplayer-fonts-1.1-2.0.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/de/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/de/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/fr/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/fr/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/hu/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/hu/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/pl/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/pl/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
W: There are multiple versions of "j2re" 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 { "^j2re$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

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

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Error while running transaction
[root@Tutak root]# rpm -e mplayer
[root@Tutak root]# apt-get install mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
aalib divx4linux faad2 lame libdvdcss libdvdread libpostproc lirc mplayer-fonts xvidcore
The following NEW packages will be installed:
aalib divx4linux faad2 lame libdvdcss libdvdread libpostproc lirc mplayer mplayer-fonts
xvidcore
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 removed and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/9927kB of archives.
After unpacking 30.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/share/mplayer/font from install of mplayer-fonts-1.1-2.0.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/de/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/de/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/fr/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/fr/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/hu/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/hu/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/pl/man1/mencoder.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
file /usr/share/man/pl/man1/mplayer.1.gz from install of mplayer-1.0-0.11.pre5.0.rh9.dag conflicts with file from package mplayer-common-0.90rc2-1
W: There are multiple versions of "j2re" 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 { "^j2re$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

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

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Error while running transaction
[root@Tutak root]#

cany anyone help me with that?