Need help with Mplayer

[Jozsef Mak]

>From: "rodrigo ahumada" <rodahum1978 at hotmail.com>
>To: j_mak3 at hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: Need help with Mplayer
>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:22:27 -0300
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>>From: "Jozsef Mak" <j_mak3 at hotmail.com>
>>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>Subject: RE: Need help with Mplayer
>>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:24:45 -0500
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>>I downloaded the source code from the mplayer.hu site and I followed the 
>>installation instructions exactly. And as I said everything went smoothly. 
>>I also downloaded skins and copied them into the usr/local/share/Skin 
>>folder as i was instructed.
>>
>>I also have the libgtk1.2 installed on my system.
>>
>>mplayer works fine from the command line. I have a few .mov and .avi 
>>movies and it plays them flawlessly.
>>
>>jozsefmak
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>in gtk2, libsmooth.so is the lib for the smooth theme engine, i got it in 
>/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/ ...
>- if you have other apps that use gtk-1 (xmms, gtk-gnutella,amule...?), see 
>if they works.
>- look /usr/lib/gtk-1.2/engines... libsmooth.so
>- rm anything like ".gtkrc" from home directory

yesterday i uninstalled the 1.0res6 and reinstalled the previous version of 
Mplayer, 1.0pre5 following the exact  insturctions on  ubuntu FAQ page;  
this time I got the following error.

root at ubuntu:/home/mak # gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird 897.2 MHz (Family: 6, 
Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
directory
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)
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': 
No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (233 
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 /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'

Any idea?

jozmak



>here i found 2 project of gtk2 front ends for mplayer:
>  http://homepages.ius.edu/CJEZELL/projects.html
>  http://j.a.l.free.fr/namp/
>
>i'm gonna try them
>