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yesterday i installed mplayer on fedora 2 using the command "yum setup mplayer" - it downloaded a bunch of dependecies & finally istalled. then i was able to open mplayer, ...
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  1. 08-12-2004 #1
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    MPlayer opens & instantly closes on Fedora2-KDE

    yesterday i installed mplayer on fedora 2 using the command "yum setup mplayer" - it downloaded a bunch of dependecies & finally istalled. then i was able to open mplayer, i even tried to view a movie with it & it worked perfectly.

    today i try to open mplayer it pops up (i see it for 1/2sec) and instatly closes, there is no warning message or anything like that

    what could be the problem ?
    // i would include my mplayer version but i do not know how to recevie that info

    thank you for any help.

    [edit] : just a thought : maybe it is better to just tell yum to reinstall the player ? if so, how do i do that ?
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    well, i did "yum remove mplayer"
    then did again "yum install mplayer"
    that worked ok, but i still get the same result when i try to open mplayer.

    once thing i did noticed is that it only closes when i try to load the mplayer-gui, when i tried to view the movie using the commmand line version of mplayer it worked ok and i was able to view the movie.

    any idea's., anyone ?
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    Can you try running mplayer-gui from the command line? Then when it crashes, it should give you some info about what caused it.
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    try running the following from a command shell:
    mplayer options --vo x11
    Mplayer used to do the same thing for me, but when I tried that, it never crashed again!
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    to start the mplayer GUI from the command line the command is

    Code:
     gmplayer
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    yes that is correct, to start mplayer GUI you use the command
    Code:
    gplayer
    anyway i tried to run it from the console, it told me it can't find any defualt skin to display
    i went(//how do you spell that-> go in past?) to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html downloaded Blue-1.4.tar.bz2 to /usr/share/mplayer/Skin
    Code:
    chmod a+x Blue-1.4.tar.bz2
    & now it works perfectly, thank you.

    // ps : i kinda like the command version more now (:
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