mplayer gui

[benjamin20]

[ben@x1-6-00-40-2b-35-4f-37 ben]$ gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel 2217 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 10)
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
Creating config file: /home/ben/.mplayer/config
Reading config file /home/ben/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/ben/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/ben/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /home/ben/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/ben/.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/ben/.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/ben/.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
SKIN dir 1: '/home/ben/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'

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this is what i get when i run gmplayer. nothing pops up and i cant do anything. when i close the terminal window thse two messages pop up consecutavly but not at the same time


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MPlayer interrupted by signal 1 in moduale: unknown
[ ok ]
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when i hit ok i get this
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- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in
your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlauer's fault,
please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow
the instructions ther. We cant't and
won't hwlp unless you provide infromation
when reporting a possible bug.
[ ok ]
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im using the nvidia drivers so could this be the modual its having a problem with?

[Vergil83]

does regular mplayer work?

[benjamin20]

yes

[Stormblazer]

If you can, I strongly recomend installing MPlayer from the CVS snapshot on their website, as they almost always work. Just make sure you add the --enable-gui option when running configure.
EDIT: I'm also using the nVidia drivers, maybe you forgot to install a skin for the GUI?

[benjamin20]

i put a skin in a few places where i thought it was looking for one like /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin. then i tried /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default. then i tried /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin. nothing worked. im trying blueheart for my skin. all i have to do is past the folder in the right directory right.

[Stormblazer]

Try adding the "skin=blueheart" line to the $HOME/.mplayer/gui.conf file.
When you extract the skin, just extract it to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin , and rename the new directory "blueheart"
It might also help to use the actual skin called "default" from MPlayer's website, at least untill the GUI actually runs so you set a different skin more easily.

[U-Turn]

On first launch, MPlayer looks for a skin named "default". You can either change this in the ~/.mplayer/gui.conf file, as was suggested, or create a symlink from /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/BlueHeart to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default.
In your OP, the error was also complaining about no fonts. You'll notice that the font tarball contains about 4 or 5 directories which contain fonts. You need to extract the contents of one of these directories to /usr/local/share/mplayer/fonts in order to get MPlayer-gui to launch.