Problems installing mplayer

[Bob Hentges]

John Greene wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 13:15 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,

Hi there

>>I have been a fan of Mplayer for a long time now.
>>However, i am facing problems installing mplayer in Ubuntu.
>>Whenever i select the package mplayer-custom in synapitc, it gives me
>>the following errors:
>>mplayer-custom:
>> Depends: libavcodec2 but it is not going to be installed
>> Depends: libpostproc0 but it is not going to be installed
>> Depends: libxvidcore4 but it is not going to be installed
>>
>>It also says"you are going to install software that can't be
>>autheticated". 
>>How do i install mplayer then?
>  
> Have you tried following the Ubuntu guide http://ubuntuguide.org/ ?  If
> not, try it as it shows explicitly how to get mplayer working (check
> your sources.list to make sure you have the right repos listed from the
> guide).

Well, all I can say is that I installed mplayer, just the way I was told 
at ubuntuguide.org. Nevertheless I am experiencing a strange bug. 
Everything seems to work fine, but whatever I do, either the movie 
window stays black, or it reproduces the background (supposedly xroot, 
but I am not sure what background is used in nautilus).

I really do not know what I am doing wrong, as the error log isn't 
reporting anything useful either. If somebody got a clue, I really would 
be glad to try something, even if the chance of success is limited, to 
get the whole thing to a working point.

Friendly
-- 
Bob Hentges a.k.a. maradong
URL:    http://bob.hentges.lu/