Mplayer Help

[3th0s]

(I'm not sure if this is the right thread to post this in, so please move if applicable)
So I just installed MPlayer (downloaded, unpacked, compiled then installed). During the config i added --enable -GUI to the ./configure line during the install. Once it was all done and i rebooted, typing 'mplayer' into terminal spits out the list of options and what not, as it is (apparently?) supposed to do. However I can't get it to actually open anything. I'm still kind of confused as to open a file via terminal, but when i go to open a media file on my computer (one that i am able to open with xine) with Mplayer, it quickly opens and closes a box, with an error report I'm guessing.

I'm wondering how to even go about fixing this, i'm kind of lost without the error box to guide me, and i'm 99% sure i installed it, along with the codecs and skins correctly. Alternately, what is the best/safest way to go about uninstalling this or any other program from linux, I haven't crossed that bridge yet --in case i should just uninstall and try again with a fresh install.

I'm running fedora core 6 if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the help/support, I'm starting to get the hang of using this fantastic OS

[Vergil83]

I would try running from the command line and see if any errors are printed.

mplayer /home/user_name/blah.avi

or you can run gmplayer. This should bring up the gui, but the errors should still be printed on the command line.

[dylan623]

I'm not sure, but I suggest you get CNR (if it's avalible for Fedora yet, see my thread in Ubuntu Questions), which I heard makes installing things a LOT easier.

[asadujjaman]

have you installed mplayer-gui? that is the graphical interface to mplayer.
If u installed you may still be facing problems that i faced when i installed

> yum install mplayer mplayer-gui

and then used
>gmplayer
to call up the mplayer-gui

then i changed some configuration which u may consider. at the left most portion of the gui face there is a button to open up the configuration window. here u may change some pareameters. i choose to enable double buffering, allow software mixing, provided 5120kB buffer etc and ding!!! it started working just fine.

You may try this way.

[asadujjaman]

you may also try vlc player. It's just great.
Install it from the livna repository. Otherwise it might not be able to play some file types.